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Timing and Casting for Actors of Thymic Negative Selection¹

Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Unit 345, Institut Necker, Paris, France

We have recently proposed a new model for the differentiation pathway of ß TCR thymocytes, with the CD4 and CD8 coreceptors undergoing an unexpectedly complex series of expression changes. Taking into account this new insight, we reinvestigated the timing of thymic negative selection. We found that, although endogenous superantigen-driven thymic negative selection could occur at different steps during double-positive/single-positive cell transition, this event was never observed among CD4^lowCD8^low TCR^int CD69⁺ thymocytes, i.e., within the first subset to be generated upon TCR-mediated activation of immature double-positive cells. We confirm a role for CD40/CD40L interaction, and the absence of involvement of CD28 costimulation, in thymic deletion in vivo. Surprisingly, we found that thymic negative selection was impaired in the absence of Fas, but not FasL, molecule expression. Finally, we show involvement in opposing directions for p59^fyn and SHP-1 molecules in signaling for thymic negative selection.

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