Role of T cell receptor affinity in the efficacy and specificity of adoptive T cell therapies

JD Stone, DM Kranz - Frontiers in immunology, 2013 - frontiersin.org
… T cell therapies, the impact of the affinity of the αβ TCR for the pepMHC cancer antigen on
… We discuss the advantages of higher-affinity TCRs in mediating potent activity of CD4 T cells

Lower affinity T cells are critical components and active participants of the immune response

RJ Martinez, BD Evavold - Frontiers in immunology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
… system, but the process of maintaining affinity diversity is unclear. We further … affinity T cells
and, therefore, highlight the important contribution of low-affinity T cells and a broad affinity

What are the primary limitations in B-cell affinity maturation, and how much affinity maturation can we drive with vaccination? A role for antibody feedback

KM Toellner, DMY Sze, Y Zhang - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2018 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
… on affinity maturation of B cells. Competition from epitope-specific antibodies produced …
is essential for transport and deposition of antigen onto follicular dendritic cells (FDCs). It also …

A cell surface glycoprotein of rat basophilic leukemia cells close to the high affinity IgE receptor (Fc epsilon RI). Similarity to human melanoma differentiation antigen …

S Kitani, E Berenstein, S Mergenhagen… - Journal of Biological …, 1991 - ASBMB
… IgE or of several antibodies directed to the high affinity IgE receptor (… antibodies did inhibit
mAb AD1 binding as intact molecules but not as Fab fragments. Therefore, the sites on the cell

Immune cells use active tugging forces to distinguish affinity and accelerate evolution

H Jiang, S Wang - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
… We thus propose that B cells may do mechanical work to drive their own evolution. To test
… of antigen extraction to a minimal model of affinity maturation, simulate ensembles of cell

Integrin binding specificity regulates biomaterial surface chemistry effects on cell differentiation

BG Keselowsky, DM Collard… - Proceedings of the …, 2005 - National Acad Sciences
… in cell differentiation were controlled by binding of specific integrins to adsorbed FN.
Function-perturbing antibodies against the central cell … Furthermore, blocking antibodies against β …

Role of BCR affinity in T cell–dependent antibody responses in vivo

TA Yang Shih, E Meffre, M Roederer… - Nature …, 2002 - nature.com
… - and low-affinity B cells were equally able to respond to antigen in the absence … affinity
maturation during T cell–dependent antibody responses 38,39 . Antibodies elicited early in T cell–…

Expression of human B cell-associated antigens on leukemias and lymphomas: a model of human B cell differentiation

KC Anderson, MP Bates, BL Slaughenhoupt… - 1984 - ashpublications.org
… of cell surface phenotypes, tumors of B cell origin were divided into three major subgroups,
which corresponded to the level of differentiation of the malignant tumor cell: pre-B cell … -B cell

Effective functional maturation of invariant natural killer T cells is constrained by negative selection and T-cell antigen receptor affinity

R Bedel, R Berry, T Mallevaey… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
… -cell lineage. Our results establish a direct link between the affinity of the T-cell receptor for
self-antigens … also carefully tuned for proper iNKT cell differentiation and subsequent function. …

Follicular helper T cell differentiation requires continuous antigen presentation that is independent of unique B cell signaling

EK Deenick, A Chan, CS Ma, D Gatto, PL Schwartzberg… - Immunity, 2010 - cell.com
… responses, such as germinal center (GC) formation and the generation of high-affinity
long-lived plasma cells and memory cells, are dependent on help provided by CD4 + T …