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    Eur J Immunol. 2009 Sep;39(9):2337-44.

    E3 ubiquitin ligases in T-cell tolerance.

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    Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria.

    Abstract

    The immune system uses several mechanisms of central and peripheral tolerance in order to prevent the activation of T lymphocytes toward self-antigens. Although the importance of immune self-tolerance has been established for a long time, some essential cellular and molecular mechanisms of T-cell tolerance have only been recently revealed. Once thought to be a recycling system, protein ubiquitylation by E3 ligases has now emerged as a regulated and crucial modulator of immune responses, and more importantly as a key signaling pathway involved in T-cell tolerance. In this review, we highlight our current understanding of the transcriptional and molecular signaling mechanisms involved in ubiquitylation-mediated T-cell tolerance.

    PMID:
    19714573
    [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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