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
Tfh cell help versus antigen engagement in PC differentiation, we again challenged transferred
SW HEL .Blimp1 gfp/+ B cells … ) or deplete (anti-CD4) Tfh cell help, and the effect on GC …

High-affinity, neutralizing antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 can be made without T follicular helper cells

JS Chen, RD Chow, E Song, T Mao, B Israelow… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
… To ascertain how T FH -deficient mice generate high-affinity antibodies to S … high affinity
for S and/or RBD and (ii) S-specific B cells may undergo SHM even in the absence of T FH cells

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
follicular helper T cells. Imperfect correlation between BCR affinity for antigen and cognate
T-cell engagement may account for the increasing affinity heterogeneity that accompanies the …

Control of TFH cell numbers: why and how?

A Pratama, CG Vinuesa - Immunology and cell biology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
… between antigen-specific TFH cells and antigen-specific GC B cells are … TFH cells, GC B
cells with high affinity receptors are able to capture more antigen from follicular dendritic cells (…

Antigen affinity and antigen dose exert distinct influences on CD4 T-cell differentiation

S Keck, M Schmaler, S Ganter, L Wyss… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
… In contrast, follicular helper T cell (T FH ) effectors are … of proliferation induced by high and
low affinity antigens we were able … dose/low affinity or low dose/high affinity antigen, our data …

Antigen‐dependent multistep differentiation of T follicular helper cells and its role in SARS‐CoV‐2 infection and vaccination

D Baumjohann, N Fazilleau - European journal of immunology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… follicles and mature further into GC Tfh cells, and how Tfh cellsantigen and cognate
interactions are important for Tfh cell … low-affinity antigen did not impact Tfh cell differentiation [23]. …

[HTML][HTML] ICOS+PD-1+CXCR3+ T follicular helper cells contribute to the generation of high-avidity antibodies following influenza vaccination

SE Bentebibel, S Khurana, N Schmitt, P Kurup… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
… undergo minimal somatic hypermutations 10 , germinal centers (GCs) where bona fide Tfh
cells select high affinity B cells that have undergone somatic hypermutations 11 might be the …

The function of follicular helper T cells is regulated by the strength of T cell antigen receptor binding

N Fazilleau, LJ McHeyzer-Williams, H Rosen… - Nature …, 2009 - nature.com
… hi T FH cells that remained 'resident' in lymph nodes with the highest … the B cell zones to
regulate antigen-primed B cells. Naive antigen-specific helper T cells with TCR of higher affinity '…

[PDF][PDF] TFH cells regulate antibody affinity and determine the outcomes of anaphylaxis

JK Lama, H Kita - Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 2022 - Elsevier
… ; in the LZ, B cells with the highest affinity to an antigen 58 are selected by Tfh cells for
further proliferation and maturation. Affinity maturation of GC B 59 cells depends on the right …

TFH cells progressively differentiate to regulate the germinal center response

JS Weinstein, EI Herman, B Lainez… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
High-affinity antibodies and long-lived memory B cells are … Activated B cells undergo affinity
maturation and differentiation … cells promote the development of GC B cells of higher affinity