T‐cell subsets in the germinal center

RR Ramiscal, CG Vinuesa - Immunological reviews, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
T cells are known to migrate to B‐cell‐enriched follicles and germinal centers within
secondary lymphoid organs to provide help to B cells. Cognate T: B interactions that take …

High-resolution repertoire analysis reveals a major bystander activation of Tfh and Tfr cells

PG Ritvo, A Saadawi, P Barennes… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
T follicular helper (Tfh) and regulatory (Tfr) cells are terminally differentiated cells found in
germinal centers (GCs), specialized secondary lymphoid organ structures dedicated to …

[PDF][PDF] How T cells earn the follicular rite of passage

CG Vinuesa, JG Cyster - Immunity, 2011 - cell.com
The discovery that Bcl-6 was the transcriptional regulator of follicular helper T (Tfh) cells
completed the recognition of this population as an effector subset specialized in the …

B cell priming for extrafollicular antibody responses requires Bcl-6 expression by T cells

SK Lee, RJ Rigby, D Zotos, LM Tsai… - Journal of Experimental …, 2011 - rupress.org
T follicular helper cells (Tfh cells) localize to follicles where they provide growth and
selection signals to mutated germinal center (GC) B cells, thus promoting their differentiation …

[PDF][PDF] T follicular helper cell biology: a decade of discovery and diseases

S Crotty - Immunity, 2019 - cell.com
Helping B cells and antibody responses is a major function of CD4+ T cells. It has been 10
years since the publication of Bcl6 as the lineage-defining transcription factor for T follicular …

TFH cells in bystander and cognate interactions with B cells

Z Wan, Y Lin, Y Zhao, H Qi - Immunological reviews, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Follicular T‐helper (TFH) cells play a crucial role in three aspects of the germinal center
(GC) response. They promote GC formation, arbitrate competition among GC B cells to …

TFH cells progressively differentiate to regulate the germinal center response

JS Weinstein, EI Herman, B Lainez… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Germinal center (GC) B cells undergo affinity selection, which depends on interactions with
CD4+ follicular helper T cells (TFH cells). We found that TFH cells progressed through …

A distinct subpopulation of CD25 T-follicular regulatory cells localizes in the germinal centers

JB Wing, Y Kitagawa, M Locci… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
T-follicular helper (Tfh) cells differentiate through a multistep process, culminating in
germinal center (GC) localized GC-Tfh cells that provide support to GC-B cells. T-follicular …

T follicular helper cells in human autoimmunity

H Ueno - Current Opinion in Immunology, 2016 - Elsevier
Highlights•Tfh and GC response is hyperactivated in human autoimmune
diseases.•Aberrant Tfh response can be monitored by the analysis of cTfh cells.•Inflamed …

Pathophysiology of T follicular helper cells in humans and mice

H Ueno, J Banchereau, CG Vinuesa - Nature immunology, 2015 - nature.com
Follicular helper T cells (TFH cells) compose a heterogeneous subset of CD4+ T cells that
induce the differentiation of B cells into plasma cells and memory cells. They are found …