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This work was supported by grants from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (TRR60 and GK1949) and the National Science Foundation of China (No. 81771688 and 81461130019). We thank Juan Min and Ding Gao in the core facility for technical support of the Wuhan Institute of Virology for their kind help in flow cytometry and CyTOF analysis, respectively.
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Zhang, E., Yan, H., Li, Q. et al. Activation of the TLR signaling pathway in CD8+ T cells counteracts liver endothelial cell-induced T cell tolerance. Cell Mol Immunol 16, 774–776 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41423-019-0255-8
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