Nature Communications (Jan 2016)

Follicular regulatory T cells can be specific for the immunizing antigen and derive from naive T cells

  • Meryem Aloulou,
  • Edward J. Carr,
  • Mylène Gador,
  • Alexandre Bignon,
  • Roland S. Liblau,
  • Nicolas Fazilleau,
  • Michelle A. Linterman

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10579
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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T follicular regulatory cells control the magnitude of the germinal centre response. Here the authors show that these cells display specificity to self as well as foreign antigens, and can arise from Foxp3-negative precursors at early stages of immunization in a PD-L1 dependent manner.