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Quantitative impact of thymic selection on Foxp3+ and Foxp3- subsets of self-peptide/MHC class II-specific CD4+ T

James J Moon1, Pradyot Dash, Thomas H Oguin

  • 1Department of Microbiology and Center for Immunology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA. jjmoon@mgh.harvard.edu

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
|August 30, 2011
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It is currently thought that T cells with specificity for self-peptide/MHC (pMHC) ligands are deleted during thymic development, thereby preventing autoimmunity. In the case of CD4(+) T cells, what is unclear is the extent to which self-peptide/MHC class II (pMHCII)-specific T cells are deleted or become Foxp3(+) regulatory T cells. We addressed this issue by characterizing a natural polyclonal pMHCII-specific CD4(+) T-cell population in mice that either lacked or expressed the relevant antigen in a ubiquitous pattern. Mice expressing the antigen contained one-third the number of pMHCII-specific T cells as mice lacking the antigen, and the remaining cells exhibited low TCR avidity. In mice lacking the antigen, the pMHCII-specific T-cell population was dominated by phenotypically naive Foxp3(-) cells, but also contained a subset of Foxp3(+) regulatory cells. Both Foxp3(-) and Foxp3(+) pMHCII-specific T-cell numbers were reduced in mice expressing the antigen, but the Foxp3(+) subset was more resistant to changes in number and TCR repertoire. Therefore, thymic selection of self-pMHCII-specific CD4(+) T cells results in incomplete deletion within the normal polyclonal repertoire, especially among regulatory T cells.

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