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SUBMITTER: Sapoznikov A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2118686 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sapoznikov Anita A Fischer Jens A A JA Zaft Tami T Krauthgamer Rita R Dzionek Andrzej A Jung Steffen S
The Journal of experimental medicine 20070723 8
Plasmacytoid dendritic cells (PDCs) play a pivotal role as cytokine-secreting accessory cells in the antimicrobial immune defense. In contrast, the capacity of PDCs to act as antigen-presenting cells in naive T cell priming remains unclear. By studying T cell responses in mice that lack conventional DCs (cDCs), and by the use of a PDC-specific antigen-targeting strategy, we show that PDCs can initiate productive naive CD4(+) T cell responses in lymph nodes, but not in the spleen. PDC-triggered C ...[more]