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Age, microbiota, and T cells shape diverse individual IgA repertoires in the intestine.
The Journal of experimental medicine - 13 Feb 2012
Lindner Cornelia, Wahl Benjamin, Föhse Lisa, Suerbaum Sebastian, Macpherson Andrew J, Prinz Immo, Pabst Oliver
Abstract excerpt
Intestinal immunoglobulin A (IgA) ensures host defense and symbiosis with our commensal microbiota. Yet previous studies hint at a surprisingly low diversity of intestinal IgA, and it is unknown to what extent the diverse Ig arsenal generated by somatic recombination and diversification is actually used. In this study, we analyze more than one million mouse IgA sequences to describe the shaping of the intestinal...
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