1. B Cell Speed and B-FDC Contacts in Germinal Centers Determine Plasma Cell Output via Swiprosin-1/EFhd2
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Dorothea Reimer, Michael Meyer-Hermann, Asylkhan Rakhymzhan, Tobit Steinmetz, Philipp Tripal, Jana Thomas, Martin Boettcher, Dimitrios Mougiakakos, Sebastian R. Schulz, Sophia Urbanczyk, Anja E. Hauser, Raluca A. Niesner, and Dirk Mielenz
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Swiprosin-1/EFhd2 ,germinal center ,migration ,follicular dendritic cell ,actin cytoskeleton ,B cell receptor ,Biology (General) ,QH301-705.5 - Abstract
Summary: Plasma cells secreting affinity-matured antibodies develop in germinal centers (GCs), where B cells migrate persistently and directionally over defined periods of time. How modes of GC B cell migration influence plasma cell development remained unclear. Through genetic deletion of the F-actin bundling protein Swiprosin-1/EF-hand domain family member 2 (EFhd2) and by two-photon microscopy, we show that EFhd2 restrains B cell speed in GCs and hapten-specific plasma cell output. Modeling the GC reaction reveals that increasing GC B cell speed promotes plasma cell generation. Lack of EFhd2 also reduces contacts of GC B cells with follicular dendritic cells in vivo. Computational modeling uncovers that both GC output and antibody affinity depend quantitatively on contacts of GC B cells with follicular dendritic cells when B cells migrate more persistently. Collectively, our data explain how GC B cells integrate speed and persistence of cell migration with B cell receptor affinity.
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- 2020
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