Adaptive T cell tuning in immune regulation and immunotherapy of autoimmune diseases✰

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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 languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)12-18
Number of pages7
JournalImmunology Letters
Volume244
Early online date26 Feb 2022
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Apr 2022

Keywords

  • Autoimmune Diseases/therapy
  • Humans
  • Immune Tolerance
  • Immunologic Factors
  • Immunotherapy
  • Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell
  • T-Lymphocytes

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