Regulation of germinal center B‐cell differentiation

Y Zhang, L Garcia‐Ibanez… - Immunological reviews, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
cells ultimately need to be producing high-affinity antibodies. Low-affinity interactions are
sufficient to induce initial B-cell … These low-affinity B cells may develop without reentering B-cell

Ex vivo synthetic immune tissues with T cell signals for differentiating antigen-specific, high affinity germinal center B cells

A Purwada, SB Shah, W Béguelin, A August… - Biomaterials, 2019 - Elsevier
affinity antibody responses. This can be attributed to the complexity of B cell differentiation
and affinity … , which makes these highly specialized cells susceptible to rapid apoptosis ex vivo…

… modeling of germinal center recapitulates the temporal transition from memory B cells to plasma cells differentiation as regulated by antigen affinity-based Tfh cell …

E Merino Tejero, D Lashgari… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
… B-cell to plasma cell differentiation during the germinal center reaction has been shown. To
investigate if antigen affinity-based Tfh cell … model that integrates cellular interactions with a …

TCR affinity biases Th cell differentiation by regulating CD25, Eef1e1, and Gbp2

DI Kotov, JS Mitchell, T Pengo, C Ruedl… - The Journal of …, 2019 - journals.aai.org
… of TCR affinity on differentiation and T cell/DC … T cells with differing TCR affinities for the
same p:MHCII ligand (20). We found that Th cells with low-, medium-, or high-affinity TCR T cells

Past, present, and future of affinity-based cell separation technologies

K Bacon, A Lavoie, BM Rao, M Daniele, S Menegatti - Acta biomaterialia, 2020 - Elsevier
… of the cell product. For most applications, the requisite purity is only achievable through affinity
… for developing cell-targeting affinity ligands and their application in cell purification, along …

Affinity for self antigen selects Treg cells with distinct functional properties

L Wyss, BD Stadinski, CG King, S Schallenberg… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
… the affinity of the T cell antigen receptor for self antigen drives the differentiation of T reg cells
into … are distinct; this is expected if TCR specificity is linked to T reg cell differentiation. The …

Differentiation of germinal center B cells into plasma cells is initiated by high-affinity antigen and completed by Tfh cells

NJ Kräutler, D Suan, D Butt, K Bourne… - Journal of Experimental …, 2017 - rupress.org
… Nevertheless, the process whereby GC B cells differentiate into PCs is … PC differentiation
of only high-affinity GC B cells remains unknown. In this study, we show that differentiation into …

Plasma cell and memory B cell differentiation from the germinal center

D Suan, C Sundling, R Brink - Current opinion in immunology, 2017 - Elsevier
… ), our lab previously showed that Blimp1 + PCs specifically differentiate from high-affinity
but not low-affinity B cell precursors within the GC [15]. Given the relationship between BCR …

Regulation of memory B and plasma cell differentiation

R Shinnakasu, T Kurosaki - Current opinion in immunology, 2017 - Elsevier
… subset [19 •• ] (Figure 1b–e), demonstrated that half of the clones generated only one
type of cellular subset, indicating that antigen affinity influences fate choice. In addition, the …

Antibody affinity shapes the choice between memory and germinal center B cell fates

C Viant, GHJ Weymar, A Escolano, S Chen… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
… B cells differ in their affinity for antigen throughout … cell receptor affinity for antigen is one of
the important determinants in the cell fate decision for plasma cell and GC B cell differentiation