Nature Communications (Jan 2023)

Influence of circadian clocks on adaptive immunity and vaccination responses

  • Louise Madeleine Ince,
  • Coline Barnoud,
  • Lydia Kay Lutes,
  • Robert Pick,
  • Chen Wang,
  • Flore Sinturel,
  • Chien-Sin Chen,
  • Alba de Juan,
  • Jasmin Weber,
  • Stephan J. Holtkamp,
  • Sophia Martina Hergenhan,
  • Jennifer Geddes-McAlister,
  • Stefan Ebner,
  • Paola Fontannaz,
  • Benjamin Meyer,
  • Maria Vono,
  • Stéphane Jemelin,
  • Charna Dibner,
  • Claire-Anne Siegrist,
  • Felix Meissner,
  • Frederik Graw,
  • Christoph Scheiermann

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-35979-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Circadian rhythms have been shown to influence immune responses, but it is unclear whether this influences responses to vaccines. Here the authors show that dendritic cells migrate in a circadian rhythm meaning that interactions with T cells are altered leading to differential vaccine responses.