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regulation of B-cell Epitope migration and Autoimmunity by T follicular helper cells

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Coordinator	UNIVERSITAIR MEDISCH CENTRUM UTRECHT Organization address address: HEIDELBERGLAAN 100 city: UTRECHT postcode: 3584 CX website: www.umcutrecht.nl contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.
Coordinator Country	Netherlands [NL]
Total cost	260˙929 €
EC max contribution	260˙929 € (100%)
Programme	1. H2020-EU.1.3.2. (Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility)
Code Call	H2020-MSCA-IF-2017
Funding Scheme	MSCA-IF-GF
Starting year	2018
Duration (year-month-day)	from 2018-07-01 to 2021-06-30

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#	participants	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	UNIVERSITAIR MEDISCH CENTRUM UTRECHT UNIVERSITAIR MEDISCH CENTRUM UTRECHT Organization address address: HEIDELBERGLAAN 100 city: UTRECHT postcode: 3584 CX website: www.umcutrecht.nl contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	NL (UTRECHT)	coordinator	260˙929.00
2	CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL CORPORATION CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL CORPORATION Organization address address: LONGWOOD AVENUE 300 city: BOSTON postcode: 2115 website: http://www.childrenshospital.org/ contact info title: n.a. name: n.a. surname: n.a. function: n.a. email: n.a. telephone: n.a. fax: n.a.	US (BOSTON)	partner	0.00

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Project objective

The detection of autoantibodies typically appear a few years prior to clinical autoimmune disease and their reactivity can drift at or after disease onset. The laboratory of M.C. Carroll (outgoing institute) has developed a murine model (ARTEMIS; Autoreactive B-cell driven T-dependent Epitope Migration towards Immunity to Self) where the presence of a single autoreactive B cell clone drives activation, expansion and differentiation of other autoreactive B-cells in spontaneous germinal centers (GC) followed by autoantibody deposition in the kidney. These autoreactive B-cells target multiple other self-antigens (also known as epitope spreading) and are independent of the initial trigger once tolerance is broken. Follicular T helper (Tfh) cells play a prominent role in the selection of B-cells in the GC and have been linked to excessive GC formation, high-level production of pathogenic autoantibodies and end-organ damage in murine and human autoimmune disease. With this project I will address the role of Tfh cells in the maturation process of the self-reactive B-cell response and epitope spreading as observed in human autoimmune disease. Preliminary results show dependence of T cells, the extent and nature of T-cell involvement is however not yet addressed. I will utilize the mixed bone-marrow chimera model (ARTEMIS) in combination with selected strains altered in important factors for Tfh function and differentiation. As the GC reaction is a highly dynamic process we will visualize this utilizing multi-photon intravital microscopy and analyze important interactions of Tfh cells in the developing autoreactive GC. The development of autoreactivity from WT B-cells in the ARTEMIS model better reflects natural autoreactive GC behavior and human autoimmune disease and could therefore favor the transition of potential therapeutic targets from murine to human disease.

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