Nature Communications (Sep 2018)

Neonatally imprinted stromal cell subsets induce tolerogenic dendritic cells in mesenteric lymph nodes

  • Joern Pezoldt,
  • Maria Pasztoi,
  • Mangge Zou,
  • Carolin Wiechers,
  • Michael Beckstette,
  • Guilhem R. Thierry,
  • Ehsan Vafadarnejad,
  • Stefan Floess,
  • Panagiota Arampatzi,
  • Manuela Buettner,
  • Janina Schweer,
  • Diana Fleissner,
  • Marius Vital,
  • Dietmar H. Pieper,
  • Marijana Basic,
  • Petra Dersch,
  • Till Strowig,
  • Mathias Hornef,
  • André Bleich,
  • Ulrike Bode,
  • Oliver Pabst,
  • Marc Bajénoff,
  • Antoine-Emmanuel Saliba,
  • Jochen Huehn

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06423-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Induction of tolerance in the gut relies on immunomodulatory functions of mesenteric lymph nodes (mLN). Here the authors show that mLN stromal cells receive early microbiota imprinting in the neonatal phase to exhibit long-term, location-specific transcriptional programs for the induction of regulatory T cells and peripheral tolerance.