Abstract

How the microbiome and mucosal environment mediate homeostatic immunity in the skin is not well understood. In this issue of Cell, Lima-Junior and colleagues report that skin commensal bacteria induce endogenous retrovirus (ERV) expression and antiviral immune responses in keratinocytes, favoring the priming of beneficial commensal-specific Tcell subsets that promote tissue homeostasis.

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