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Editorial
. 2022 Aug;150(2):299-301.
doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2022.04.022. Epub 2022 Apr 28.

A "LEAP" forward in understanding immune mechanisms of oral tolerance to peanut

Timothy P Moran  1 , Michael D Kulis  2
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Editorial

A "LEAP" forward in understanding immune mechanisms of oral tolerance to peanut

Timothy P Moran et al. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2022 Aug.
No abstract available

Keywords: CTLA-4; Peanut allergy; oral tolerance; regulatory T cells.

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Conflict of interest statement

Disclosure of potential conflict of interest: M. D. Kulis receives consulting fees from UKKO. The remaining author declares that he has no relevant conflicts of interest.

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Ingestion of peanut induces CTLA-4-expressing Treg cells that protect mice from peanut allergy caused by environmental peanut exposure. During peanut avoidance, exposure to environmental peanut through the airway or skin results in increased numbers of IL-4–producing follicular helper T (TFH) cells and germinal center (GC) B cells in tissue-draining lymph nodes, leading to increased levels of peanut-specific immunoglobulins and development of peanut allergy. In contrast, peanut consumption induces a Treg cell population that expresses high-levels of CTLA-4, which suppress TFH and GC B-cell expansion following environmental peanut exposure. This results in decreased production of peanut-specific immunoglobulins and development of tolerance to peanut. Created with BioRender.com.
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