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SUBMITTER: Kang HK
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3370101 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kang Hee-Kap HK Chiang Ming-Yi MY Ecklund Diane D Zhang Li L Ramsey-Goldman Rosalind R Datta Syamal K SK
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 20120504 12
In search of autoantigen-presenting cells that prime the pathogenic autoantibody-inducing Th cells of lupus, we found that CD41(+)CD151(+) cells among Lineage(-) (Lin(-)) CD117(+) (c-Kit(+)) CX3CR1(-) splenocytes depleted of known APCs were most proficient in presenting nuclear autoantigens from apoptotic cells to induce selectively an autoimmune Th17 response in different lupus-prone mouse strains. The new APCs have properties resembling megakaryocyte and/or bipotent megakaryocyte/erythroid pro ...[more]