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SCIENCE
卷 345, 期 6200, 页码 1058-1062出版社
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1257861
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- NIH Medical Scientist Training Program [T32GM07739]
- Empire State Stem Cell Fund through New York State Department of Health [C023046]
- NIH [AI037526-19, AI072529-06, AI100663-02, AR40072-24, AR053495-08]
- Alliance for Lupus Research
T follicular helper (T-FH) cells select high-affinity, antibody-producing B cells for clonal expansion in germinal centers (GCs), but the nature of their interaction is not well defined. Using intravital imaging, we found that selection is mediated by large but transient contacts between T-FH and GC B cells presenting the highest levels of cognate peptide bound to major histocompatibility complex II. These interactions elicited transient and sustained increases in T-FH intracellular free calcium (Ca2+) that were associated with T-FH cell coexpression of the cytokines interleukin-4 and -21. However, increased intracellular Ca2+ did not arrest T-FH cell migration. Instead, T-FH cells remained motile and continually scanned the surface of many GC B cells, forming short-lived contacts that induced selection through further repeated transient elevations in intracellular Ca2+.
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