Nature Communications (Oct 2016)

Loss of immune tolerance to IL-2 in type 1 diabetes

  • Louis Pérol,
  • John M. Lindner,
  • Pamela Caudana,
  • Nicolas Gonzalo Nunez,
  • Audrey Baeyens,
  • Andrea Valle,
  • Christine Sedlik,
  • Delphine Loirat,
  • Olivier Boyer,
  • Alain Créange,
  • José Laurent Cohen,
  • Ute Christine Rogner,
  • Jun Yamanouchi,
  • Martine Marchant,
  • Xavier Charles Leber,
  • Meike Scharenberg,
  • Marie-Claude Gagnerault,
  • Roberto Mallone,
  • Manuela Battaglia,
  • Pere Santamaria,
  • Agnès Hartemann,
  • Elisabetta Traggiai,
  • Eliane Piaggio

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13027
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Type 1 diabetes is driven by T-cell autoimmunity to pancreatic islet cells. Here the authors show that autoreactive anti-IL-2 T and B cells are present in type 1 diabetes patients, and that anti-IL-2 antibodies precede diabetes onset in mice, suggesting their potential as a diagnostic marker.