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We recently reported that a microbiome-derived TLR2 ligand, Lipid 654 (L654), is present in healthy human serum but significantly decreased in the serum of MS patients. This suggested that microbiome products that gain access to the systemic circulation, rather than being proinflammatory, may normally play an immune-regulatory role by maintaining a state of relative TLR tolerance. Therefore, a loss of microbiome-mediated TLR tolerance, as suggested by lower serum levels of L654, may play a role in the pathogenesis of MS. As proof of concept we asked whether administering low-level TLR2 ligands in adoptive transfer EAE induces TLR2 tolerance and attenuates disease. We administered low-level Pam2CSK4 or L654 to mice receiving encephalitogenic cells and in doing so induced both TLR2 tolerance and attenuation of EAE. Disease attenuation was accompanied in the CNS by a decrease in macrophage activation, a decrease in a specific proinflammatory macrophage population, and a decrease in Th17 cells. In addition, disease attenuation was associated with an increase in splenic type 1 regulatory T cells. Kinetic tolerance induction studies revealed a critical period for TLR2 involvement in adoptive transfer EAE. 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