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Essential roles of insulin expression in Aire(+) tolerogenic dendritic cells in maintaining peripheral self-tolerance of islet β-cells.
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PMID:  22297234     Owner:  NLM     Status:  Publisher    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
Anti-insulin autoimmunity is one of the primary forces in initiating and progressing β-cell destruction in type 1 diabetes. While insulin expression in thymic medullary epithelial cells has been shown to be essential for establishing β-cell central tolerance, the function of insulin expression in antigen-presenting cells (APCs) of hematopoietic lineage remains elusive. With a Cre-lox reporter approach, we labeled Aire-expressing cells with enhanced yellow fluorescent proteins, and found that insulin expression in the spleen was restricted predominantly to a population of Aire(+)CD11c(int)B220(+) dendritic cells (DCs). Targeted insulin deletion in APCs failed to induce anti-islet autoimmunity in B6 mice. In contrast, elevated levels of T cell infiltration into islets were observed in B6(g7) congenic mice when insulin was specifically deleted in their CD11c-expressing DCs (B6(g7)·CD11c-ΔIns mice). Thus, insulin expression in BM-derived, Aire(+) tolerogenic DCs may play an essential role to prevent the activation and expansion of insulin-reactive T cells in the periphery.
Authors:
Maria Grupillo; Giulio Gualtierotti; Jing He; Giorgia Sisino; Rita Bottino; William A Rudert; Massimo Trucco; Yong Fan
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Publication Detail:
Type:  JOURNAL ARTICLE     Date:  2012-1-12
Journal Detail:
Title:  Cellular immunology     Volume:  -     ISSN:  1090-2163     ISO Abbreviation:  -     Publication Date:  2012 Jan 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2012-2-2     Completed Date:  -     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  1246405     Medline TA:  Cell Immunol     Country:  -    
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Languages:  ENG     Pagination:  -     Citation Subset:  -    
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Copyright © 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Affiliation:
Division of Immunogenetics, Department of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Ri.Med Foundation, Palermo, Italy; Science of Transplantation, Pisa University, Pisa, Italy.
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