Nature Communications (Jul 2020)

B cell zone reticular cell microenvironments shape CXCL13 gradient formation

  • Jason Cosgrove,
  • Mario Novkovic,
  • Stefan Albrecht,
  • Natalia B. Pikor,
  • Zhaoukun Zhou,
  • Lucas Onder,
  • Urs Mörbe,
  • Jovana Cupovic,
  • Helen Miller,
  • Kieran Alden,
  • Anne Thuery,
  • Peter O’Toole,
  • Rita Pinter,
  • Simon Jarrett,
  • Emily Taylor,
  • Daniel Venetz,
  • Manfred Heller,
  • Mariagrazia Uguccioni,
  • Daniel F. Legler,
  • Charles J. Lacey,
  • Andrew Coatesworth,
  • Wojciech G. Polak,
  • Tom Cupedo,
  • Bénedicte Manoury,
  • Marcus Thelen,
  • Jens V. Stein,
  • Marlene Wolf,
  • Mark C. Leake,
  • Jon Timmis,
  • Burkhard Ludewig,
  • Mark C. Coles

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17135-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Morphogens such as chemokines form gradients to direct graded responses and modulate cell behaviors. Here the authors show, using imaging and computer simulation, that the chemokine CXCL13 originated from follicular reticular cells in the lymph nodes forms both soluble and immobilized gradients to regulate B cell recruitment and migration.