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The Journal of Immunology, 2007, 179, 4535-4541
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Skin-Derived Dendritic Cells Can Mediate Deletional Tolerance of Class I-Restricted Self-Reactive T Cells1

Jason Waithman*, Rhys S. Allan*, Hiroshi Kosaka{dagger}, Hiroaki Azukizawa{ddagger}, Ken Shortman§, Manfred B. Lutz, William R. Heath2,§, Francis R. Carbone2,* and Gabrielle T. Belz§

* Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia; {dagger} Department of Dermatology, National Hospital Organization, Osaka Minami Medical Centre, Kawachinagano, Japan; {ddagger} Department of Dermatology, Osaka University Medical School, Suita, Japan; § Immunology Division, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville, Australia; and Institute for Virology and Immunobiology, University of Wuerzburg, D-97078 Wuerzburg, Germany

Skin-draining lymph nodes contain a number of dendritic cell (DC) subsets of different origins. Some of these are migratory, such as the skin-derived epidermal Langerhans cells and a separate dermal DC subset, whereas others are lymphoid resident in nature, such as the CD8+ DCs found throughout the lymphoid tissues. In this study, we examine the DC subset presentation of skin-derived self-Ag by migratory and lymphoid-resident DCs, both in the steady state and under conditions of local skin infection. We show that presentation of self-Ag is confined to skin-derived migrating DCs in both settings. Steady state presentation resulted in deletional T cell tolerance despite these DCs expressing a relatively mature phenotype as measured by traditional markers such as the level of MHC class II and CD86 expression. Thus, self-Ag can be carried to the draining lymph nodes by skin-derived DCs and there presented by these same cells for tolerization of the circulating T cell pool.

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1 This work was supported by grants from the Australian National Heath and Medical Research Council, The Wellcome Trust, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

2 Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. William R. Heath, Immunology Division, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Parkville 3050, Australia; E-mail address: heath{at}wehi.edu.au or Dr. Francis R. Carbone, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Melbourne, Parkville 3010, Australia; E-mail address: fcarbone{at}unimelb.edu.au

3 Abbreviations used in this paper: DC, dendritic cell; LN, lymph node; PI, propidium iodide.




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