Immunological basis for enhanced immunity of nanoparticle vaccines

HG Kelly, SJ Kent, AK Wheatley - Expert Review of Vaccines, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction: Immunization has been a remarkably successful public health intervention;
however, new approaches to vaccine design are essential to counter existing and emerging …

Antigen presentation to B cells

BA Heesters, CE van der Poel, A Das, MC Carroll - Trends in immunology, 2016 - cell.com
Unlike T cells that recognize digested peptides, B cells recognize their cognate antigen in its
native form. The B cell receptor used in recognition can also be secreted to bind to antigens …

Subcapsular sinus macrophages prevent CNS invasion on peripheral infection with a neurotropic virus

M Iannacone, EA Moseman, E Tonti, L Bosurgi, T Junt… - Nature, 2010 - nature.com
Lymph nodes (LNs) capture microorganisms that breach the body's external barriers and
enter draining lymphatics, limiting the systemic spread of pathogens. Recent work has …

B‐cell activation influences T‐cell polarization and outcome of anti‐CD20 B‐cell depletion in central nervous system autoimmunity

MS Weber, T Prod'Homme, JC Patarroyo… - Annals of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Clinical studies indicate that anti‐CD20 B‐cell depletion may be an effective
multiple sclerosis (MS) therapy. We investigated mechanisms of anti‐CD20‐mediated …

Linking signaling and selection in the germinal center

MJ Shlomchik, W Luo, F Weisel - Immunological reviews, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Germinal centers (GC) are sites of rapid B‐cell proliferation in response to certain types of
immunization. They arise in about 1 week and can persist for several months. In GC s, B …

T cells and follicular dendritic cells in germinal center B‐cell formation and selection

CG Vinuesa, MA Linterman, CC Goodnow… - Immunological …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Germinal centers (GCs) are specialized microenvironments formed after infection where
activated B cells can mutate their B‐cell receptors to undergo affinity maturation. A stringent …

CD19 is essential for B cell activation by promoting B cell receptor–antigen microcluster formation in response to membrane-bound ligand

D Depoil, S Fleire, BL Treanor, M Weber… - Nature …, 2008 - nature.com
Here we describe the spatiotemporal architecture, at high molecular resolution, of receptors
and signaling molecules during the early events of mouse B cell activation. In response to …

Visualization of splenic marginal zone B-cell shuttling and follicular B-cell egress

TI Arnon, RM Horton, IL Grigorova, JG Cyster - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
The splenic marginal zone is a unique microenvironment where resident immune cells are
exposed to the open blood circulation,. Even though it has an important role in responses …

T follicular helper cells have distinct modes of migration and molecular signatures in naive and memory immune responses

D Suan, A Nguyen, I Moran, K Bourne, JR Hermes… - Immunity, 2015 - cell.com
B helper follicular T (Tfh) cells are critical for long-term humoral immunity. However, it
remains unclear how these cells are recruited and contribute to secondary immune …

Single-component multilayered self-assembling protein nanoparticles presenting glycan-trimmed uncleaved prefusion optimized envelope trimers as HIV-1 vaccine …

YN Zhang, J Paynter, A Antanasijevic, JD Allen… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Uncleaved prefusion-optimized (UFO) design can stabilize diverse HIV-1 envelope
glycoproteins (Envs). Single-component, self-assembling protein nanoparticles (1c-SApNP) …