Nature Communications (Dec 2022)

A conserved population of MHC II-restricted, innate-like, commensal-reactive T cells in the gut of humans and mice

  • Carl-Philipp Hackstein,
  • Dana Costigan,
  • Linnea Drexhage,
  • Claire Pearson,
  • Samuel Bullers,
  • Nicholas Ilott,
  • Hossain Delowar Akther,
  • Yisu Gu,
  • Michael E. B. FitzPatrick,
  • Oliver J. Harrison,
  • Lucy C. Garner,
  • Elizabeth H. Mann,
  • Sumeet Pandey,
  • Matthias Friedrich,
  • Nicholas M. Provine,
  • Holm H. Uhlig,
  • Emanuele Marchi,
  • Fiona Powrie,
  • Paul Klenerman,
  • Emily E. Thornton

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35126-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 19

Abstract

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Interactions between the host immune response and the commensal microbiota play essential roles in health and disease. Here the authors identify a population of MHC class II, innate like, commensal reactive cells in the gut of mice and humans.