Journal article
Increased endogenous antigen presentation in the periphery enhances susceptibility to inflammation-induced gastric autoimmunity in mice
Sarah A Overall, Dorothee Bourges, Ian R van Driel, Paul A Gleeson
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY | WILEY-BLACKWELL | Published : 2017
Abstract
How the immune system maintains peripheral tolerance under inflammatory conditions is poorly understood. Here we assessed the fate of gastritogenic T cells following inflammatory activation in vivo. Self-reactive T cells (A23 T cells) specific for the gastric H+ /K+ ATPase α subunit (HKα) were transferred into immunosufficient recipient mice and immunised at a site distant to the stomach with adjuvant containing the cognate HKα peptide antigen. Activation of A23 T cells by immunisation did not impact on either immune tolerance or protection from gastric autoimmunity in wild-type BALB/c mice. However, increased presentation of endogenously derived HKα epitopes by dendritic cells (DCs) in the ..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This work was supported by research awards from the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia. SO was supported by an Australian Postgraduate Award.