Latest Preprints

Canesso MCC, Castro TBR, Sandra Nakandakari-Higa S, Lockhart A, Esterhazy D, Reis BS, Victora GD*, Mucida D*. Identification of dendritic cell-T cell interactions driving immune responses to food. bioRxiv. 2022 Oct 26: 2022.10.26.513772; doi. 10.1101/2022.10.26.513772.

Chudnovskiy A, Nakandakari-Higa S, Castro TBR, Cui A, Lin C-H, Sade-Feldman M, Phillips BK, Pae J, Mesin L, Bortolatto J, Schweitzer LD, Pasqual G, Lu L-F, Hacohen N, Victora GD. Proximity-dependent labeling identifies dendritic cells that prime the antitumor CD4+ T cell response. bioRxiv. 2022 Oct 25:2022.10.25.513771. doi: 10.1101/2022.10.25.513771.

Schiepers A, van 't Wout MFL, Greaney AJ, Zang T, Muramatsu H, Lin PJC, Tam YK, Mesin L, Starr TN, Bieniasz PD, Pardi N, Bloom JD, Victora GD. Molecular fate-mapping of serum antibodies reveals the effects of antigenic imprinting on repeated immunization. bioRxiv. 2022 Sep 6:2022.08.29.505743. doi: 10.1101/2022.08.29.505743.

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Selected Publications

de Carvalho RVH*, Ersching J*, Barbulescu A*, Hobbs A, Castro TBR, Mesin L, Jacobsen JT, Phillips BK, Hoffman H-H, Parsa R, Canesso MCC, Nowosad CR, Feng A, Leist SR, Baric RS, Yang E, Utz PJ, Victora GD. Clonal replacement sustains long-lived germinal centers primed by respiratory viruses. Cell. 2022, in press.  

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Ng KW, Hobbs A, Wichmann C, Victora GD, Donaldson GP. B cell responses to the gut microbiota. Adv Immunol. 2022 Oct 14. Online ahead of print. doi.org/10.1016/bs.ai.2022.08.003.

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Victora GD, Nussenzweig MC. Germinal Centers. Annu Rev Immunol. 2022 Feb 3. doi: 10.1146/annurev-immunol-120419-022408. pdf

Pae J, Jacobsen JT, Victora GD. Imaging the different timescales of germinal center selection. Immunol Rev. 2021 Nov 25. doi: 10.1111/imr.13039. 

Jacobsen JT, Hu W, Castro TBR, Solem S, Galante A, Lin Z, Allon SJ, Mesin L, Bilate A, Schiepers A, Shalek AK, Rudensky A, Victora GD. Expression of Foxp3 by T follicular helper cells in end-stage germinal centers. Science. 2021 Jul 16;373(6552):eabe5146. doi: 10.1126/science.abe5146.  pdf

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Pae J, Ersching J, Castro TBR, Schips M, Mesin L, Allon SJ, Ordovas-Montanes J, Mlynarczyk C, Melnick A, Efeyan A, Shalek AK, Meyer-Hermann M, Victora GD. Cyclin D3 drives inertial cell cycling in dark zone germinal center B cells. J Exp Med. 2021 Apr 5;218(4):e20201699. doi: 10.1084/jem.20201699. Epub 2020 Dec 17.

Nowosad C*, Mesin L*, Castro TBR, Wichmann C, Donaldson GP, Araki T, Schiepers  A, Lockhart AAK,  Bilate AM, Mucida D*, Victora GD*. Tunable dynamics of B cell selection in gut germinal centers. Nature. 2020 Dec;588(7837):321-326. doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2865-9. Epub 2020 Oct 28.

Mesin L*, Schiepers A*, Ersching J, Barbulescu A, Cavazzoni CB, Angelini A, Okada T, Kurosaki T, Victora GD. Restricted Clonality and Limited Germinal Center Reentry Characterize Memory B Cell Reactivation by Boosting. Cell. 2020 Jan 9;180(1):92-106.e11. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2019.11.032

Roco JA, Mesin L, Binder SC, Nefzger C, Gonzalez-Figueroa P, Canete PF, Ellyard J, Shen Q, Robert PA, Cappello J, Vohra H, Zhang Y, Nowosad CR, Schiepers A, Corcoran LM, Toellner KM, Polo JM, Meyer-Hermann M, Victora GD, Vinuesa CG. Class-Switch Recombination Occurs Infrequently in Germinal Centers. Immunity. 2019 Aug 20;51(2):337-350.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.immuni.2019.07.001. Epub 2019 Jul 30.

Jacobsen JT, Mesin L, Markoulaki S, Schiepers A, Cavazzoni CB, Bousbaine D, Jaenisch R, Victora GD. One-step generation of monoclonal B cell receptor mice capable of isotype switching and somatic hypermutation. J Exp Med. 2018 Oct 1;215(10):2686-2695. doi: 10.1084/jem.20172064

Pasqual G, Chudnovskiy A, Tas JMJ, Agudelo M, Schweitzer LD, Cui A, Hacohen N, Victora GD. Monitoring T cell-dendritic cell interactions in vivo by intercellular enzymatic labelling. Nature. 2018 Jan 25;553(7689):496-500. doi: 10.1038/nature25442

Ersching J, Efeyan A, Mesin L, Jacobsen JT, Pasqual G, Grabiner BC, Dominguez-Sola D, Sabatini DM, Victora GD. Germinal Center Selection and Affinity Maturation Require Dynamic Regulation of mTORC1 Kinase. Immunity. 2017 Jun 20;46(6):1045-1058.e6. doi: 10.1016/j.immuni.2017.06.005

Mesin L, Ersching J, Victora GD. Germinal Center B Cell Dynamics. Immunity. 2016 Sep 20;45(3):471-82. doi: 10.1016/j.immuni.2016.09.001

Tas JMJ,* Mesin L,* Pasqual G, Targ S, Jacobsen JT, Mano YM, Chen CS, Weill JC, Reynaud CA, Browne EP, Meyer-Hermann M, Victora GD. Visualizing antibody affinity maturation in germinal centers. Science, 18 Feb 2016 (7689):. doi: 10.1126/science.aad3439

Victora GD*, Wilson PC*. Germinal center selection and the antibody response to influenza. Cell. 2015 Oct 22;163(3):545-8. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.10.004

Victora GD. SnapShot: the germinal center reaction. Cell. 2014 Oct 23;159(3):700-700.e1. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2014.10.012

Victora GD & Mesin L. Clonal and Cellular Dynamics in Germinal Centers. Curr Op Immunol. 2014, 28:90-96. doi: 10.1016/j.coi.2014.02.010

Victora GD. Stop, Go, and Evolve. Science. Dec 6;342(6163):1186. doi: 10.1126/science.1247567

Shulman Z, Gitlin AD, Targ S, Jankovic M, Pasqual G, Nussenzweig MC*, Victora GD*. In vivo dynamics of Tfh cells in Germinal Centers. Science. Aug 9;341(6146):673-7. doi: 10.1126/science.1241680

Dominguez-Sola D*, Victora GD*, Ying CY, Phan RT, Saito M, Nussenzweig MC, Dalla-Favera R.The proto-oncogene MYC is required for selection in the germinal center and cyclic reentry. Nat Immunol. 2012 Nov;13(11):1083-91. doi: 10.1038/ni.2428

Victora GD*, Dominguez-Sola D*, Deroubaix S, Holmes AB, Dalla-Favera R, Nussenzweig MC. Identification of human germinal center light and dark zone cells and their relationship to human B cell lymphomas. Blood. 2012 Sep 13;120(11):2240-8. doi: 10.1182/blood-2012-03-415380

Victora GD*, Nussenzweig, MC*. Germinal Centers. Annu Rev Immunol. 2012;30:429-57. doi: 10.1146/annurev-immunol-020711-075032

Schwickert TA*, Victora GD*, Fooksman DR, Kamphorst AO, Mugnier MR, Gitlin AD, Dustin ML, Nussenzweig MC. A dynamic T cell-limited checkpoint regulates affinity-dependent B cell entry into the germinal center. J Exp Med. 2011 Jun 6;208(6):1243-52. doi: 10.1084/jem.20102477

Victora GD, Schwickert TA, Fooksman DR, Kamphorst AO, Meyer-Hermann M, Dustin ML, Nussenzweig MC. Germinal center dynamics revealed by multiphoton microscopy with a photoactivatable fluorescent reporter. Cell. 2010 Nov 12;143(4):592-605. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2010.10.032

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