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NATURE IMMUNOLOGY
卷 16, 期 9, 页码 980-990出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ni.3226
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- American Cancer Society [RSG-11-161-01-MPC]
- US National Institutes of Health [AI105351, AI112579, AI115149, AI119160, AI113806, AI109976, AI063107, AI072543, AI007485]
- University of Iowa Presidential Graduate Research Fellowship program
Follicular helper T cells (T-FH cells) are specialized effector CD4(+) T cells that help B cells develop germinal centers (GCs) and memory. However, the transcription factors that regulate the differentiation of T-FH cells remain incompletely understood. Here we report that selective loss of Lef1 or Tcf7 (which encode the transcription factor LEF-1 or ICE-1, respectively) resulted in T-FH cell defects, while deletion of both Lef1 and Tcf7 severely impaired the differentiation of T-FH cells and the formation of GCs. Forced expression of LEE-1 enhanced T-FH differentiation. LEF-1 and TCF-1 coordinated such differentiation by two general mechanisms. First, they established the responsiveness of naive CD4(+) T cells to T-FH cell signals. Second, they promoted early T-FH differentiation via the multipronged approach of sustaining expression of the cytokine receptors IL-61R alpha and gp130, enhancing expression of the costimulatory receptor ICOS and promoting expression of the transcriptional repressor BcI6.
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