Communications Biology (Dec 2021)

Potent but transient immunosuppression of T-cells is a general feature of CD71+ erythroid cells

  • Tomasz M. Grzywa,
  • Anna Sosnowska,
  • Zuzanna Rydzynska,
  • Michal Lazniewski,
  • Dariusz Plewczynski,
  • Klaudia Klicka,
  • Milena Malecka-Gieldowska,
  • Anna Rodziewicz-Lurzynska,
  • Olga Ciepiela,
  • Magdalena Justyniarska,
  • Paulina Pomper,
  • Marcin M. Grzybowski,
  • Roman Blaszczyk,
  • Michal Wegrzynowicz,
  • Agnieszka Tomaszewska,
  • Grzegorz Basak,
  • Jakub Golab,
  • Dominika Nowis

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02914-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 1
pp. 1 – 19

Abstract

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Grzywa et al. show that early CD71+ erythroid cells expand in the spleen of anemic mice and in humans and suppress T-cell activation. These results provide insight into the role of CECs in the immune response regulation.