Nature Communications (May 2017)

Foxp3+ regulatory T cells maintain the bone marrow microenvironment for B cell lymphopoiesis

  • Antonio Pierini,
  • Hidekazu Nishikii,
  • Jeanette Baker,
  • Takaharu Kimura,
  • Hye-Sook Kwon,
  • Yuqiong Pan,
  • Yan Chen,
  • Maite Alvarez,
  • William Strober,
  • Andrea Velardi,
  • Judith A. Shizuru,
  • Joy Y. Wu,
  • Shigeru Chiba,
  • Robert S. Negrin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15068
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Treg cells suppress peripheral immune responses, but their function in haematopoiesis is unclear. Here the authors show they modulate the bone marrow microenvironment to sustain haematopoietic stem cell-driven generation of mature B cells.