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Abstract
Lymphocyte receptors confer antigen specificity on the adaptive immune response. Increasing evidence points to the role of adaptive tuning particularly amongst CD4+ T cell responses. This review summarises how T cell tuning impacts on critically important aspects of immune regulation including thymic selection, the immune response to chronic antigen exposure and antigen-specific immunotherapy of autoimmune conditions. Recent work has revealed a novel mechanism for T cell anergy and regulatory type 1 T cell differentiation through a limitation of T cell receptor mediated signalling combined with epigenetic priming of tolerance associated genes.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 12-18 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Immunology Letters |
Volume | 244 |
Early online date | 26 Feb 2022 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Apr 2022 |
Keywords
- Autoimmune Diseases/therapy
- Humans
- Immune Tolerance
- Immunologic Factors
- Immunotherapy
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell
- T-Lymphocytes
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Defining peptide epitopes of islet antigens for detailed characterisation and immunotherapy of type 1 diabetes
2/07/18 → 31/10/22
Project: Research
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Definning peptide epitopes of islet for immunotherapy of type 1 diabetes
1/04/18 → 30/04/22
Project: Research