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SUBMITTER: Dubois SP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1150852 | biostudies-other | 2005 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Dubois Sigrid P SP Waldmann Thomas A TA Müller Jürgen R JR
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20050602 24
The survival of CD8+/CD44(hi) memory phenotype T cells depends on an IL-15 activity on nonlymphoid cells. Here, we report that IL-15 and its receptor were induced on dendritic cells (DCs) by a combination of IFN-gamma and NF-kappaB relA inducers. IL-15 conferred in an autocrine loop resistance to apoptosis that accompanied the maturation process in DCs in vitro. As an apparent result in vivo, mice deficient in IL-15 or its receptor harbor few DCs. Injecting DCs into IL-15-/- mice was associated ...[more]