title: Regulatory T Cells: A Crisis Averted.
abstract: Although regulatory T cells protect people from autoimmunity, two recent papers in Immunity (Malchow et al., 2016; Kieback et al., 2016) demonstrate that these cells are also a crisis averted. Without the proper education in the thymus, these cells will turn on their host and cause autoimmunity.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Center for Immunology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
authors.forename: Deepali
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Malhotra
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Center for Immunology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA. Electronic address: jenki002@umn.edu.
authors.forename: Marc K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Jenkins
mesh_terms: D015551:Autoimmunity / Q000276:immunology*; D006801:Humans; D007109:Immunity; D050378:T-Lymphocytes, Regulatory / Q000276:immunology*; D013950:Thymus Gland