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SUBMITTER: Chen X
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4624673 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chen Xin X Ma Weiwei W Zhang Tingxin T Wu Longyan L Qi Hai H
Protein & cell 20151101 11
How follicular T-helper (Tfh) cells develop is incompletely understood. We find that, upon antigen exposure in vivo, both naïve and antigen-experienced T cells sequentially upregulate CXCR5 and Bcl6 within the first 24 h, relocate to the T-B border, and give rise to phenotypic Bcl6(+)CXCR5(+) Tfh cells before the first cell division. CXCR5 upregulation is more dependent on ICOS costimulation than that of Bcl6, and early Bcl6 induction requires T-cell expression of CXCR5 and, presumably, relocati ...[more]