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    Sentinel lymph nodes (SLNs) represent the sites where micro-metastasis can first develop, however they are also important to mount effective anti-tumor immune responses. Here the authors describe the design of a flex-patch loaded with anti-PD-1 antibodies and immuno-adjuvant nanosheets, layered double hydroxide, to fuel anti-tumor immune response in the SLN for postsurgical breast cancer adjuvant therapy.

    • Bei Li
    • , Guohao Wang
    •  & Yunlu Dai

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    Beiging and thermogenesis in white adipose tissue (WAT) is an important adaptive response to cold exposure, but how the brain senses cold and subsequently induces beiging remains unclear. Here, the authors show that sympathetic nerves stimulate lymph nodes to release IL-33, thereby mediating cold-induced beiging of WAT.

    • Lai Yee Cheong
    • , Baile Wang
    •  & Aimin Xu

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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.

    • Louise Madeleine Ince
    • , Coline Barnoud
    •  & Christoph Scheiermann

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    Lymph nodes in various locations of the body differ in their cell composition and gene expression signatures. Here authors show that the rapid postnatal expansion of lymph nodes is governed by CD34 + stromal cells and fibroblastic reticular stromal cell progenitors, distinguished by intrinsic, microbiome-independent core epigenetic blueprints.

    • Joern Pezoldt
    • , Carolin Wiechers
    •  & Jochen Huehn

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    Activated B cell enter germinal centers (GC) to become plasma cells and memory B cells. Here the authors show that some memory B cells recycle to GC via CCL-21 mediated chemotaxis to deliver antigens from the lymph node subcapsular sinus (SCS) to potentially contribute to affinity maturation and antigenic drift.

    • Yang Zhang
    • , Laura Garcia-Ibanez
    •  & Kai-Michael Toellner

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    NK cells control SIV infection in secondary lymphoid tissues in the natural host that typically doesn’t progress toward disease. Here the authors show that this control is associated with terminal NK cell differentiation and improved MHC-E-dependent activity lacking in pathogenic SIV infection.

    • Nicolas Huot
    • , Philippe Rascle
    •  & Michaela Müller-Trutwin

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    Migration and homing of B cells to lymph nodes are important for B cell functions, but their regulation is poorly understood. Here, the authors show that B cell-specific deletion of Cosmc results in decreased protein O-glycosylation, loss of B cell homing to both lymphoid and nonlymphoid organs, and altered transendothelial migration implicated in this loss.

    • Junwei Zeng
    • , Mahmoud Eljalby
    •  & Richard D. Cummings

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    The origin and diversity of blood vascular endothelial cells (BEC) in lymphoid tissues is unclear. Here, the authors profile murine BECs from peripheral lymph nodes by single cell analysis and identify subsets of cells specialised for immune cell recruitment and vascular homeostasis.

    • Kevin Brulois
    • , Anusha Rajaraman
    •  & Eugene C. Butcher

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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.

    • Jason Cosgrove
    • , Mario Novkovic
    •  & Mark C. Coles

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    Immune cells mostly enter lymph nodes (LN) from blood circulation, but whether afferent lymphatics contributes to LN entry is unclear. Here, the authors show, using a photo-convertible reporter, that T cells in afferent lymphatics frequently enter LN and become arrested in the subcapsular sinus, with chemokines and integrins further guiding their migration in the LN.

    • Rieke Martens
    • , Marc Permanyer
    •  & Reinhold Förster

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    Lymphatic endothelial cells (LECs) can cross-present antigen to naïve CD8+ T cells, but the significance of this interaction was unclear. Here the authors show that LECs directly induce CD8+ T cell differentiation with memory-like phenotypes, migration patterns and transcriptome, which can later be recalled to promote effector immunity and protection from Listeria infection.

    • Efthymia Vokali
    • , Shann S. Yu
    •  & Melody A. Swartz

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    Fibroblastic reticular cells (FRC) are important for lymph node (LN) structure and function. Here the authors show that the YAP/TAZ complex downstream of Hippo signalling regulates FRC commitment and maturation, with YAP/TAZ deficiency impairing FRC differentiation, while hyperactivation of YAZ/TAZ inducing myofibroblastic FRCs and LN fibrosis.

    • Sung Yong Choi
    • , Hosung Bae
    •  & Gou Young Koh

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    Induction of tolerance in the gut relies on immunomodulatory functions of mesenteric lymph nodes (mLN). Here the authors show that mLN stromal cells receive early microbiota imprinting in the neonatal phase to exhibit long-term, location-specific transcriptional programs for the induction of regulatory T cells and peripheral tolerance.

    • Joern Pezoldt
    • , Maria Pasztoi
    •  & Jochen Huehn

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    Memory B cells need to be reactivated to produce high affinity antibody responses on subsequent antigen encounters. Here the authors show that memory B cells localise to lymph node subcapsular proliferative foci (SPF), which have distinct properties from the germinal centre, for rapid expansion and the induction of B memory responses.

    • Imogen Moran
    • , Akira Nguyen
    •  & Tri Giang Phan

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    Tumor neoantigens can be drained to the lymph nodes, but the nature and the significance of the induced immune responses are still unclear. Here the authors use a mouse genetic tumor model to show that tumor-specific CD4 T cells can become anergic or suppressive in the draining lymph node to modulate tumor immunity.

    • Ruby Alonso
    • , Héloïse Flament
    •  & Olivier Lantz

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    Viral infection and vaccination both induce lasting persistence of antigens for protective responses. Here the authors show that migratory dendritic cells, independent of the transcription factor BatF3 for their development, contribute to “archived antigen” exchange with lymphatic endothelial cells.

    • Ross M. Kedl
    • , Robin S. Lindsay
    •  & Beth A. Jirón Tamburini

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    The growth of lymph nodes in response to infection requires lymphangiogenesis. Dubey et al. show that the mesenteric lymph node lymphangiogenesis upon helminth infection depends on the signaling loop between the B and fibroblastic reticular cells (FRCs), whereby the FRCs respond to lymphotoxin secreted by B cells by releasing B cell activating factor.

    • Lalit Kumar Dubey
    • , Praneeth Karempudi
    •  & Nicola L. Harris

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    Thymic stromal lymphopoietin is an important initiator of Th2 responses, but, to date, little is known about how it drives the immune cascade in the tissue microenvironment in vivo. Here, the authors show that skin thymic stromal lymphopoietin orchestrate interactions between immune cells, leading to Th2 priming.

    • Juan Manuel Leyva-Castillo
    • , Pierre Hener
    •  & Mei Li

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