| First Author | Yang S | Year | 2015 |
| Journal | Science | Volume | 348 |
| Issue | 6234 | Pages | 589-94 |
| PubMed ID | 25791085 | Mgi Jnum | J:221494 |
| Mgi Id | MGI:5640885 | Doi | 10.1126/science.aaa7017 |
| Citation | Yang S, et al. (2015) Immune tolerance. Regulatory T cells generated early in life play a distinct role in maintaining self-tolerance. Science 348(6234):589-94 |
| abstractText | Aire is an important regulator of immunological tolerance, operating in a minute subset of thymic stromal cells to induce transcripts encoding peptides that guide T cell selection. Expression of Aire during a perinatal age window is necessary and sufficient to prevent the multiorgan autoimmunity characteristic of Aire-deficient mice. We report that Aire promotes the perinatal generation of a distinct compartment of Foxp3(+)CD4(+) regulatory T (Treg) cells, which stably persists in adult mice. This population has a role in maintaining self-tolerance, a transcriptome and an activation profile distinguishable from those of Tregs produced in adults. Underlying the distinct Treg populations are age-dependent, Aire-independent differences in the processing and presentation of thymic stromal-cell peptides, resulting in different T cell receptor repertoires. Our findings expand the notion of a developmentally layered immune system. |
