• DOI:10.1038/ni.1874
Corpus ID: 33154019

Autonomous role of medullary thymic epithelial cells in central CD4+ T cell tolerance

@article{Hinterberger2010AutonomousRO,
  title={Autonomous role of medullary thymic epithelial cells in central CD4+ T cell tolerance},
  author={M. Hinterberger and M. Aichinger and Olivia Prazeres da Costa and D. Voehringer and R. Hoffmann and L. Klein},
  journal={Nature Immunology},
  year={2010},
  volume={11},
  pages={512-519}
}

• M. Hinterberger, M. Aichinger, +3 authors L. Klein
• Published 2010
• Biology, Medicine
• Nature Immunology

Medullary thymic epithelial cells (mTECs) serve an essential function in central tolerance by expressing peripheral-tissue antigens. These antigens may be transferred to and presented by dendritic cells (DCs). Therefore, it is unclear whether mTECs, in addition to being an antigen reservoir, also serve a mandatory function as antigen-presenting cells. Here we diminished major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II on mTECs through transgenic expression of a 'designer' microRNA specific for… Expand

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