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SUBMITTER: Okazaki T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3039848 | biostudies-other | 2011 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Okazaki Taku T Okazaki Il-mi IM Wang Jian J Sugiura Daisuke D Nakaki Fumio F Yoshida Taku T Kato Yu Y Fagarasan Sidonia S Muramatsu Masamichi M Eto Tomoo T Hioki Kyoji K Honjo Tasuku T
The Journal of experimental medicine 20110207 2
Stimulatory and inhibitory co-receptors play fundamental roles in the regulation of the immune system. We describe a new mouse model of spontaneous autoimmune disease. Activation-induced cytidine deaminase-linked autoimmunity (aida) mice harbor a loss-of-function mutation in the gene encoding lymphocyte activation gene 3 (LAG-3), an inhibitory co-receptor. Although LAG-3 deficiency alone did not induce autoimmunity in nonautoimmune-prone mouse strains, it induced lethal myocarditis in BALB/c mic ...[more]