CCL22 acoplado por afinidad promueve la selección positiva en los centros germinales

Bo Liu1,2,3, Yihan Lin1,2,3, Jiacong Yan1,2,3

  • 1Tsinghua-Peking Center for Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

Nature
|February 18, 2021
PubMed
Resumen

Las células B del centro germinal usan las quimiocinas CCL22 y CCL17 para atraer a las células T auxiliares foliculares (TFH), asegurando que las células B de alta afinidad reciban ayuda preferencial de las células T para la maduración efectiva de la afinidad de los anticuerpos.

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