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

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

[HTML][HTML] Multifaceted effects of antigen valency on B cell response composition and differentiation in vivo

Y Kato, RK Abbott, BL Freeman, S Haupt, B Groschel… - Immunity, 2020 - cell.com
… of antigen valency during different phases of B cell responses … activated cognate B cells,
with little affinity discrimination. This … antigen valencies on B cell activation, B cell differentiation, …

Plasma cell differentiation during the germinal center reaction

W Ise, T Kurosaki - Immunological reviews, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
affinity for antigen determines the amount of antigen the cell … both plasma cell differentiation
and GC B-cell expansion. Our … of GC B-cell differentiation into plasma cells or GC cycling by …

In Vivo CD4+ T Cell Differentiation and Function: Revisiting the Th1/Th2 Paradigm

M Ruterbusch, KB Pruner, L Shehata… - Annual review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
… effector T cell differentiation and a holistic view of CD4 + T cell … how Teff and Tfh cells
differentiate from naive precursors, as … differentiation, while those activated by low-affinity antigen

Central CD4+ T cell tolerance: deletion versus regulatory T cell differentiation

L Klein, EA Robey, CS Hsieh - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2019 - nature.com
… Finally, low-affinity or high-affinity peptide ligands for the same TCR can instruct T reg
cell differentiation with equal efficiency provided that the density of the low-affinity ligand is …

Excessive CD11c+Tbet+ B cells promote aberrant TFH differentiation and affinity-based germinal center selection in lupus

W Zhang, H Zhang, S Liu, F Xia… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
… Our investigation of AAM focused on antigen-specific GCB-cell differentiation and selection,
given the reports of active SHM in these models and autoantibodies (6, 21, 51–53). The (4-…

Specificity, polyspecificity and heterospecificity of antibody-antigen recognition

MHV Van Regenmortel… - … : A Review of 20 Years of …, 2019 - Springer
… B cells with higher affinity receptors (BCRs) are selected are not entirely clear. Progeny cells
with higher affinity BCRs … during antigen clearance. Another possibility is that unprocessed …