51. Antigen-dependent multistep differentiation of T follicular helper cells and its role in SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination
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Dirk Baumjohann, Nicolas Fazilleau, Benson-Rumiz, Alicia, IMPACT DE LA FORMULATION VACCINALE SUR LA COMPOSITION DES COMPARTMENTS LYMPHOCYTAIRES A MEMOIRE TFH ET B - - MEMO-SIGN2016 - ANR-16-CE15-0002 - AAPG2016 - VALID, Rôle de la classe des Ig / BCR dans les interactions cellulaires supportant la mémoire immune et impact immunopathologique - - Ig-MemImpact2016 - ANR-16-CE15-0019 - AAPG2016 - VALID, University of Bonn, University Hospital Bonn, Institut Toulousain des Maladies Infectieuses et Inflammatoires (Infinity), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Société Française d'Immunologie (SFI), ANR-16-CE15-0002,MEMO-SIGN,IMPACT DE LA FORMULATION VACCINALE SUR LA COMPOSITION DES COMPARTMENTS LYMPHOCYTAIRES A MEMOIRE TFH ET B(2016), and ANR-16-CE15-0019,Ig-MemImpact,Rôle de la classe des Ig / BCR dans les interactions cellulaires supportant la mémoire immune et impact immunopathologique(2016)
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0301 basic medicine ,COVID-19 Vaccines ,Immunology ,T cells ,Reviews ,Antibody formation ,medicine.disease_cause ,CXCR5 ,Autoimmunity ,Pathogenesis ,memory ,03 medical and health sciences ,Chemokine receptor ,0302 clinical medicine ,Immune system ,antigen ,Antigen ,[SDV.MHEP.MI]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Infectious diseases ,medicine ,Immunology and Allergy ,Compartment (development) ,Animals ,Humans ,Basic ,Antigens, Viral ,[SDV.MHEP] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology ,biology ,SARS-CoV-2 ,COVID-19 ,Cell Differentiation ,T-Lymphocytes, Helper-Inducer ,differentiation ,Highlights ,030104 developmental biology ,[SDV.MHEP.MI] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology/Infectious diseases ,biology.protein ,Review|Basic ,Antibody ,Immunologic Memory ,[SDV.MHEP]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Human health and pathology ,030215 immunology - Abstract
T follicular helper (Tfh) cells play an essential role in regulating the GC reaction and, consequently, the generation of high‐affinity antibodies and memory B cells. Therefore, Tfh cells are critical for potent humoral immune responses against various pathogens and their dysregulation has been linked to autoimmunity and cancer. Tfh cell differentiation is a multistep process, in which cognate interactions with different APC types, costimulatory and coinhibitory pathways, as well as cytokines are involved. However, it is still not fully understood how a subset of activated CD4+ T cells begins to express the Tfh cell‐defining chemokine receptor CXCR5 during the early stage of the immune response, how some CXCR5+ pre‐Tfh cells enter the B‐cell follicles and mature further into GC Tfh cells, and how Tfh cells are maintained in the memory compartment. In this review, we discuss recent advances on how antigen and cognate interactions are important for Tfh cell differentiation and long‐term persistence of Tfh cell memory, and how this is relevant to the current understanding of COVID‐19 pathogenesis and the development of potent SARS‐CoV‐2 vaccines., Tfh cell differentiation is a multistep process: Tfh cells first emerge after contact with DCs in the T‐cell zone (step 1), migrate to the T/B border to interact with activated B cells (step 2), and together with continued interactions with B cells seed GCs in follicles (step 3).
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- 2021
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