Lymphotoxin α fine-tunes T cell clonal deletion by regulating thymic entry of antigen-presenting cells

Autoreactive T cells are removed during their development in the thymus through the functions of medullary thymic epithelial cells (mTEC) and dendritic cells (DC), a process termed negative selection. Here the authors show that mTEC-T cell crosstalk and lymphotoxin α signalling are essential for the...

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Main Authors: Noëlla Lopes, Jonathan Charaix, Oriane Cédile, Arnauld Sergé, Magali Irla
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-03-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03619-9