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…

Antigen-driven B cell differentiation in vivo.

MG McHeyzer-Williams, MJ McLean, PA Lalor… - The Journal of …, 1993 - rupress.org
… Germinal center B cells are thought to randomly diversify their Ig genes by a process of …
affinity variants are selectively preserved as memory cells for response to secondary antigenic

Generation of higher affinity T cell receptors by antigen-driven differentiation of progenitor T cells in vitro

TM Schmitt, DH Aggen, K Ishida-Tsubota… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
… and human T cells on antigen-expressing feeder cells to develop higher-affinity TCRs. The
… In vitro differentiation of progenitors transduced with a known Tcra gene in the presence of …

Antigen affinity discrimination is an intrinsic function of the B cell receptor

W Liu, T Meckel, P Tolar, HW Sohn… - Journal of Experimental …, 2010 - rupress.org
affinity B cells, only high affinity B cells responded to T cell–independent antigen and only
high affinity B cells accumulated in GCs after immunization with a T cell–dependent antigen. …

Cell selection by antigen in the immune response

GW Siskind, B Benacerraf - Advances in immunology, 1969 - Elsevier
… immune response, to select those cells of highest antigen-binding affinity from a proliferating
immune … changing population of lymphoid cells from which plasma cells differentiate. As the …

… 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 …

Affinity enhancement of antibodies: how low-affinity antibodies produced early in immune responses are followed by high-affinity antibodies later and in memory B-cell …

HN Eisen - Cancer immunology research, 2014 - AACR
… So are virtually all the other innumerable antibodies used as … also affinity-matured antibodies.
Here, we wish to describe some molecular and cellular mechanisms that underlie affinity

T cell activation-associated epitopes of CD147 in regulation of the T cell response, and their definition by antibody affinity and antigen density

C Koch, G Staffler, R Hüttinger, I Hilgert… - International …, 1999 - academic.oup.com
… and demonstrated that the binding of T cell activation-restricted mAb is not dependent on
de novo T cell epitope expression, but on mAb affinity and antigen density and/or clustering. …

TCR signal quantity and quality in CD4+ T cell differentiation

NJ Tubo, MK Jenkins - Trends in immunology, 2014 - cell.com
… indicates that individual cells within the population differentiate in very different ways after
exposure to the antigen. We focus here on studies of CD4 + T cells and review evidence …

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