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SUBMITTER: Marks BR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2751862 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Marks Benjamin R BR Nowyhed Heba N HN Choi Jin-Young JY Poholek Amanda C AC Odegard Jared M JM Flavell Richard A RA Craft Joe J
Nature immunology 20090906 10
Interleukin 17 (IL-17)-producing CD4(+) helper T cells (T(H)-17 cells) share a developmental relationship with Foxp3(+) regulatory T cells (T(reg) cells). Here we show that a T(H)-17 population differentiates in the thymus in a manner influenced by recognition of self antigen and by the cytokines IL-6 and transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta). Like previously described T(H)-17 cells, the T(H)-17 cells that developed in the thymus expressed the transcription factor RORgamma t and the IL-23 r ...[more]