T follicular helper cells during immunity and tolerance
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T follicular helper cells during immunity and tolerance
Abstract
Helper T cells are required for the generation of a potent immune response to foreign antigens. Amongst them, T follicular helper (Tfh) cells are specialized in promoting protective, long-lived antibody responses that arise from germinal centers. Within these structures, the specificity of B cell receptors may change, due to the process of random somatic hypermutation aimed at increasing the overall affinity of the antibody response. The danger of emerging self-reactive specificities is offset by a stringent selection mechanism delegated in great part to Tfh cells. Only those B cells receiving survival signals from Tfh cells can exit the germinal centers to join the long-lived pools of memory B cells and bone marrow-homing plasma cells. Thus, a crucial immune tolerance checkpoint to prevent long-term autoantibody production lies in the ability to tolerize Tfh cells and to control positive and negative selection signals delivered by this subset. This review tackles the known mechanisms that ensure Tfh tolerance, many of them shared by other T helper subsets during thymic development and priming, but others unique to Tfh cells. Amongst the latter are checkpoints at the stages of Tfh differentiation, follicular migration, growth, longevity, and quality control of selection signals. Finally, we also discuss the consequences of a breakdown in Tfh tolerance.
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