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SUBMITTER: Yi T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4618158 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yi Tangsheng T Li Jianhua J Chen Hsin H Wu Jiaxi J An Jinping J Xu Ying Y Hu Yongmei Y Lowell Clifford A CA Cyster Jason G JG
Immunity 20151006 4
Sheep red blood cells (SRBCs) have long been used as a model antigen for eliciting systemic immune responses, yet the basis for their adjuvant activity has been unknown. Here, we show that SRBCs failed to engage the inhibitory mouse SIRPα receptor on splenic CD4(+) dendritic cells (DCs), and this failure led to DC activation. Removal of the SIRPα ligand, CD47, from self-RBCs was sufficient to convert them into an adjuvant for adaptive immune responses. DC capture of Cd47(-/-) RBCs and DC activat ...[more]