Editorial Board Member's Collection Series: The Memory of the Immune Cells
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Immunology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 January 2025 | Viewed by 37
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Dear Colleagues,
In vertebrates, the immune cells of the adaptive branch of the immune system have immunologic memory that allows them to remember previously encountered pathogens (antigens) and mount a fast and adequate response after re-exposure. Although for decades we thought that immunological memory was limited to adaptive immune cells in vertebrates, this is not the case. We now discover that not only the cells of the innate branch of the immune system, such as macrophages, dendritic cells, and natural killer cells, can also have immune memory, but that immune memory also occurs in the immune cells of invertebrates. Additionally, immune memory is not the only memory that invertebrate and vertebrate immune cells have. They also memorize the features of their extracellular and cellular environment, in the form of mechanomemory in the cell membrane, cytoskeleton, nucleus, and chromatin. Such memory allows a quick response to previously encountered mechanical stresses and environmental challenges. All types of memory can cause epigenetic chromatin modifications, which change gene transcription and can be inherited across generations.
In this special issue, we welcome original research and review articles about different kinds and aspects of memory in immune cells in invertebrate and vertebrate species.
Prof. Dr. Malgorzata Kloc
Prof. Dr. Jacek Z. Kubiak
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- immunological memory
- innate immune memory
- dendritic cells
- natural killer cells
- macrophage memory
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