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Department of Pathology, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143
Multiple pathways can induce and maintain peripheral T cell tolerance. The goal of this study was to define the contributions of apoptosis and anergy to the maintenance of self-tolerance to a systemic Ag. Upon transfer into mice expressing OVA systemically, OVA-specific DO11 CD4+ T cells are activated transiently, cease responding, and die. Bim is the essential apoptosis-inducing trigger and apoptosis proceeds despite increased expression of Bcl-2 and Bcl-x. However, preventing apoptosis by eliminating Bim does not restore proliferation or cytokine production by DO11 cells. While Foxp3 is transiently induced, anergy is not associated with the stable development of regulatory T cells. Thus, apoptosis is dispensable for tolerance to a systemic self-Ag and cell-intrinsic anergy is sufficient to tolerize T cells.
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1 This work was supported by National Institutes of Health Grant PO1 AI35297.
2 Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Abul K. Abbas, Department of Pathology, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143. E-mail address: Abul.Abbas{at}ucsf.edu
3 Abbreviations used in this paper: Treg, regulatory T cell; sOVA Tg, soluble OVA transgenic; HPRT, hypoxanthine phosphoribosyltransferase; WT, wild type.
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