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Microtubules restrict F-actin polymerization to the immune synapse via GEF-H1 to maintain polarity in lymphocytes.
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- A unique echinoderm NLR triggers Vibrio phagocytosis by promoting microtubule severing to facilitate microfilament polymerization.The Journal of biological chemistry · 2026Article
- Microtubule stability modulates Schlemm's canal cell mechanobiology and outflow facility in glaucoma.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors and Small GTPases: Their Regulation and Functions, Diseases, and Therapeutic Targets.MedComm · 2025Review
- How does the tubulin code facilitate directed cell migration?Biochemical Society transactions · 2025Review
- AS03-adjuvanted H5N1 vaccine enhances immune response by modulating NR4A1, SDC1, ID3 genes, and reducing cortisol.Human vaccines & immunotherapeutics · 2024Article
- Mechanical regulation of lymphocyte activation and function.Journal of cell science · 2024Review
- Plasma membrane topography governs the 3D dynamic localization of IgM B cell antigen receptor clusters.The EMBO journal · 2023Article
- Morphological Evidence for Novel Roles of Microtubules in Macrophage Phagocytosis.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- Phenotyping polarization dynamics of immune cells using a lipid droplet-cell pairing microfluidic platform.Cell reports methods · 2022Article
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Abstract
Immune synapse formation is a key step for lymphocyte activation. In B lymphocytes, the immune synapse controls the production of high-affinity antibodies, thereby defining the efficiency of humoral immune responses. While the key roles played by both the actin and microtubule cytoskeletons in the formation and function of the immune synapse have become increasingly clear, how the different events involved in synapse formation are coordinated in space and time by actin-microtubule interactions is not understood. Using a microfluidic pairing device, we studied with unprecedented resolution the dynamics of the various events leading to immune synapse formation and maintenance in murine B cells. Our results identify two groups of events, local and global, dominated by actin and microtubules dynamics, respectively. They further highlight an unexpected role for microtubules and the GEF-H1-RhoA axis in restricting F-actin polymerization at the lymphocyte-antigen contact site, thereby allowing the formation and maintenance of a unique competent immune synapse.
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