Daniel Carolin, Weigmann Benno, von Boehmer Harald
Institute for Diabetes Research, Research Group Immune Tolerance in Type 1 Diabetes, Helmholtz Diabetes Center at Helmholtz Zentrum München, Munich, Germany
Department of Medicine 1, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany.
J Exp Med. 2017 Jul 3;214(7):2157-2159. doi: 10.1084/jem.20170285. Epub 2017 May 23.
In this issue of JEM, Bergman et al. (https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.20160471) challenge the data published in our previous JEM paper on the preventive effect of tolerogenic vaccination with a strong agonist insulin mimetope in type 1 diabetes. Here, we provide a response to these data and suggest that appropriate subimmunogenic conditions are required to induce Foxp3 regulatory T cell conversion.