title: Antigen smuggling in tuberculosis.
abstract: The importance of CD4 T lymphocytes in immunity to M. tuberculosis is well established; however, how dendritic cells activate T cells in vivo remains obscure. In this issue of Cell Host & Microbe, Srivastava and Ernst (2014) report a mechanism of antigen transfer for efficient activation of antimycobacterial T cells.
authors.affiliation: CNRS, IPBS (Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale), 205 route de Narbonne BP64182, 31077 Toulouse, France; Université de Toulouse, UPS, IPBS, 31077 Toulouse, France.
authors.forename: Denis
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hudrisier
authors.affiliation: CNRS, IPBS (Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale), 205 route de Narbonne BP64182, 31077 Toulouse, France; Université de Toulouse, UPS, IPBS, 31077 Toulouse, France. Electronic address: olivier.neyrolles@ipbs.fr.
authors.forename: Olivier
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Neyrolles
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000942:Antigens, Bacterial / Q000378:metabolism*; D015496:CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes / Q000382:microbiology*; D003713:Dendritic Cells / Q000382:microbiology*; D009169:Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Q000472:pathogenicity*
chemical_list: D000942:Antigens, Bacterial; C072681:Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens