Article
Editing autoreactive TCR enables efficient positive selection.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) - 15 Aug 2002
Santori Fabio R, Arsov Ivica, Lilić Mirjana, Vukmanović Stanislav, Lili Mirjana
Abstract excerpt
Allelic exclusion is inefficient at the TCRalpha locus, allowing a sizeable portion of T cells to carry two functional TCRs. The potential danger of dual TCR expression is a rescue of autoreactive TCRs during selection in the thymus and subsequent development of autoimmunity. In this study, we examine the reason(s) for replacing an autoreactive TCR and for allowing the survival of cells carrying two TCRs. We...
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