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SUBMITTER: Schneider H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5580795 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Schneider Helga H Smith Xin X Liu Hebin H Bismuth Georges G Rudd Christopher E CE
European journal of immunology 20080101 1
CTLA-4 is a co-receptor that modulates the threshold of T cell activation and autoimmunity. We previously showed that CTLA-4 reverses the TCR-mediated stop signal needed for T cell/APC interactions [Schneider et al., Science 2006, 313: 1972]. In this study, using a different T cell system, we show that CTLA-4 expression changed the behavior of T8.1 T cells by reducing the contact time between T cell and APC, preventing re-inforced contacts, and reducing the contact area at the immunological syna ...[more]