Triggering of affinity-enriched B cells. Analysis of B cell stimulation by antigen-specific helper factor or lipopolysaccharide. I. Dissection into proliferative and …

MA Jaworski, C Shiozawa, E Diener - The Journal of experimental …, 1982 - rupress.org
… enriched for responsiveness to the B 2 CRBC antigen undergo marked proliferation.
Despite intense cell division, no significant degree of B cell differentiation into AFC is observed …

Lack of affinity signature for germinal center cells that have initiated plasma cell differentiation

HJ Sutton, X Gao, HG Kelly, BJ Parker, M Lofgren… - Immunity, 2024 - cell.com
affinity in the initial differentiation of PCs, we tracked Igh g2A10 cells specific for the malaria
vaccine antigen P… falciparum circumsporozoite protein (PfCSP) by single-cell RNA-seq in the …

Low-affinity anti-Smith antigen B cells are regulated by anergy as opposed to developmental arrest or differentiation to B-1

M Borrero, SH Clarke - The Journal of Immunology, 2002 - journals.aai.org
… Anti-Sm B cells of 2-12H Tg mice differentiate to B-1 and … -affinity anti-Sm B cells differentiate
to B-1, we examined peritoneal cells of V κ 8 Dbl Tg mice for evidence of differentiation to B-…

Generation of B cell memory and affinity maturation. Induction with Th1 and Th2 T cell clones.

LV Rizzo, RH DeKruyff, DT Umetsu - Journal of immunology …, 1992 - journals.aai.org
… factor-p, are involved in B cell maturation and differentiation [12-17), but it is … affinity maturation
or B cell memory. Several of these cytokines are important not only for B cell differentiation

Affinity tag coating enables reliable detection of antigen-specific B cells in Immunospot assays

S Köppert, C Wolf, N Becza, GA Sautto, F Franke… - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
… -cell resolution for individual antibody-secreting cells (ASC). Here, we tested the hypothesis
that antigen-… a diverse set of viral antigens if the standard direct (non-specific, low affinity) …

Enhanced differentiation of splenic plasma cells but diminished long-lived high-affinity bone marrow plasma cells in aged mice

S Han, K Yang, Z Ozen, W Peng… - The Journal of …, 2003 - journals.aai.org
… Thus, our work demonstrates that, contrary to conventional wisdom, the plasma cell
differentiation pathway in the spleens of old animals is enhanced following T-dependent Ag …

Major histocompatibility complex binding affinity of an antigenic determinant is crucial for the differential secretion of interleukin 4/5 or interferon gamma by T cells.

V Kumar, V Bhardwaj, L Soares… - Proceedings of the …, 1995 - National Acad Sciences
… Cytokines produced by antigen-presenting cells (APC) or lymphocytes have been shown
to play an important role in helper T-cell differentiation. Thus, the presence of IL-4 or IL-12/IFN-'…

[HTML][HTML] B cells extract and present immobilized antigen: implications for affinity discrimination

FD Batista, MS Neuberger - The EMBO journal, 2000 - embopress.org
… of particulate antigen with respect to its dependence on antigen affinity. Analysis of the …
antigen was sensitive to antigen affinity even in the high (5 × 10 8 M −1 –5 × 10 10 M −1 ) affinity

Surface phenotype of Peyer's patch germinal center cells: implications for the role of germinal centers in B cell differentiation.

EC Butcher, RV Rouse, RL Coffman… - … (Baltimore, Md.: 1950 …, 1982 - journals.aai.org
… , and lymphocyte differentiation antigens to characterize the differentiative state of Peyer's
patch germinal center cells. The … Affinity-purified rabbit antibodies against mouse p and K lg …

Intrinsic properties of human germinal center B cells set antigen affinity thresholds

K Kwak, N Quizon, H Sohn, A Saniee… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
… role of these checkpoints in affinity selection and maturation, … B cells at these checkpoints
to discriminate antigen affinity or of the cellular and molecular mechanisms that facilitate affinity