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Annual Review of Immunology

Volume 33, 2015

Dynamic Tuning of Lymphocytes: Physiological Basis, Mechanisms, and Function*

Abstract

Dynamic tuning of cellular responsiveness as a result of repeated stimuli improves the ability of cells to distinguish physiologically meaningful signals from each other and from noise. In particular, lymphocyte activation thresholds are subject to tuning, which contributes to maintaining tolerance to self-antigens and persisting foreign antigens, averting autoimmunity and immune pathogenesis, but allowing responses to strong, structured perturbations that are typically associated with acute infection. Such tuning is also implicated in conferring flexibility to positive selection in the thymus, in controlling the magnitude of the immune response, and in generating memory cells. Additional functional properties are dynamically and differentially tuned in parallel via subthreshold contact interactions between developing or mature lymphocytes and self-antigen-presenting cells. These interactions facilitate and regulate lymphocyte viability, maintain their functional integrity, and influence their responses to foreign antigens and accessory signals, qualitatively and quantitatively. Bidirectional tuning of T cells and antigen-presenting cells leads to the definition of homeostatic set points, thus maximizing clonal diversity.

Keyword(s): activation threshold, adaptation, adaptive differentiation, anergy, functional reprogramming, immune regulation, reciprocal tuning, self/nonself discrimination, subthreshold interaction
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Dynamic Tuning of Lymphocytes: Physiological Basis, Mechanisms, and Function*
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