Negative Selection by an Endogenous Retrovirus Promotes a Higher-Avidity CD4⁺ T Cell Response to Retroviral Infection

• George R. Young,

  Affiliation Division of Immunoregulation, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London, United Kingdom

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• Mickaël J.-Y. Ploquin,

  Current address: Institut Pasteur, Unité de Régulation des Infections Rétrovirales, Paris, France.

  Affiliation Division of Immunoregulation, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London, United Kingdom

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• Urszula Eksmond,

  Affiliation Division of Immunoregulation, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London, United Kingdom

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• Munisch Wadwa,

  Current address: Institute of Medical Microbiology, University Hospital, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany.

  Affiliation Division of Immunoregulation, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London, United Kingdom

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• Jonathan P. Stoye,

  Affiliation Division of Virology, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London, United Kingdom

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• George Kassiotis

  * E-mail: gkassio@nimr.mrc.ac.uk

  Affiliation Division of Immunoregulation, MRC National Institute for Medical Research, London, United Kingdom

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