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Homeostasis of naive T cells: the Foxo that fixes

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The transcription factor Foxo1 regulates the homeostasis of naive peripheral T cells by 'translating' nutrient-availability signals into the expression of lymphoid tissue–homing molecules and the receptor for interleukin 7.

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Figure 1: Functions and interactions of Foxo1 and KLf2 in the homeostasis of naive T cells.

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  1. Antonio A. Freitas is with the Lymphocyte Population Biology Unit, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Unités de Recherche Associées 1961, Institut Pasteur, Paris, 75015, France

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  2. Benedita Rocha is with the Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, U591, Institut Federatif de Recherche 94, Université Paris-Descartes, Paris, 75015, France

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Freitas, A., Rocha, B. Homeostasis of naive T cells: the Foxo that fixes. Nat Immunol 10, 133–134 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/ni0209-133

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