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SUBMITTER: Bernhard CA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4418891 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bernhard Caroline A CA Ried Christine C Kochanek Stefan S Brocker Thomas T
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20150414 17
Dendritic cells (DCs) are considered the most potent antigen-presenting cells (APCs), which directly prime or cross-prime MHC I-restricted cytotoxic T cells (CTLs). However, recent evidence suggests the existence of other, as-yet unidentified APCs also able to prime T cells. To identify those APCs, we used adenoviral (rAd) vectors, which do not infect DCs but selectively accumulate in CD169(+) macrophages (MPs). In mice that lack DCs, infection of CD169(+) MPs was sufficient to prime CTLs specif ...[more]