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SUBMITTER: Robinette ML
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5380969 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Robinette Michelle L ML Bando Jennifer K JK Song Wilbur W Ulland Tyler K TK Gilfillan Susan S Colonna Marco M
Nature communications 20170331
The signals that maintain tissue-resident innate lymphoid cells (ILC) in different microenvironments are incompletely understood. Here we show that IL-7 receptor (IL-7R) is not strictly required for the development of any ILC subset, as residual cells persist in the small intestinal lamina propria (siLP) of adult and neonatal Il7ra<sup>-/-</sup> mice. Il7ra<sup>-/-</sup> ILC2 primarily express an ST2<sup>-</sup> phenotype, but are not inflammatory ILC2. CCR6<sup>+</sup> ILC3, which express highe ...[more]