title: Imprinting of the mature T cell response by self.
abstract: T cell development requires recognition of self-peptides in the thymus. Two recent studies by Allen and colleagues shed new light into the connection between self-recognition during positive selection and recognition of foreign antigen in the periphery.
authors.affiliation: Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center and Department of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine, 522 First Avenue, Smilow Research Building, 13th floor, Room 1311, New York, NY 100016, USA. Electronic address: michelle.krogsgaard@nyumc.org.
authors.forename: Michelle
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Krogsgaard
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006801:Humans; D017634:Self Tolerance / Q000276:immunology*; D013601:T-Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology*