B cell memory: building two walls of protection against pathogens

M Akkaya, K Kwak, SK Pierce - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2020 - nature.com
Surviving a single infection often results in lifelong immunity to the infecting pathogen. Such
protection is mediated, in large part, by two main B cell memory 'walls'—namely, long-lived …

Role of B cells as antigen presenting cells

I Rastogi, D Jeon, JE Moseman, A Muralidhar… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
B cells have been long studied for their role and function in the humoral immune system.
Apart from generating antibodies and an antibody-mediated memory response against …

Neoantigen-driven B cell and CD4 T follicular helper cell collaboration promotes anti-tumor CD8 T cell responses

C Cui, J Wang, E Fagerberg, PM Chen, KA Connolly… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Summary CD4 T follicular helper (TFH) cells support B cells, which are critical for germinal
center (GC) formation, but the importance of TFH-B cell interactions in cancer is unclear. We …

Antibody feedback regulates immune memory after SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination

D Schaefer-Babajew, Z Wang, F Muecksch, A Cho… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Feedback inhibition of humoral immunity by antibodies was first documented in 1909.
Subsequent studies showed that, depending on the context, antibodies can enhance or …

T follicular helper cell biology: a decade of discovery and diseases

S Crotty - Immunity, 2019 - cell.com
Helping B cells and antibody responses is a major function of CD4+ T cells. It has been 10
years since the publication of Bcl6 as the lineage-defining transcription factor for T follicular …

Single-cell transcriptomics reveals regulators underlying immune cell diversity and immune subtypes associated with prognosis in nasopharyngeal carcinoma

YP Chen, JH Yin, WF Li, HJ Li, DP Chen, CJ Zhang… - Cell research, 2020 - nature.com
Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is an aggressive malignancy with extremely skewed
ethnic and geographic distributions. Increasing evidence indicates that targeting the tumor …

B cell responses: cell interaction dynamics and decisions

JG Cyster, CDC Allen - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
B cells and the antibodies they produce have a deeply penetrating influence on human
physiology. Here, we review current understanding of how B cell responses are initiated; the …

IL-21R signal reprogramming cooperates with CD40 and BCR signals to select and differentiate germinal center B cells

W Luo, L Conter, RA Elsner, S Smita, F Weisel… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Both B cell receptor (BCR) and CD40 signaling are rewired in germinal center (GC) B cells
(GCBCs) to synergistically induce c-MYC and phosphorylated S6 ribosomal protein (p-S6) …

Remembrance of things past: long-term B cell memory after infection and vaccination

AKE Palm, C Henry - Frontiers in immunology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The success of vaccines is dependent on the generation and maintenance of immunological
memory. The immune system can remember previously encountered pathogens, and …

The unique biology of germinal center B cells

C Young, R Brink - Immunity, 2021 - cell.com
Germinal center (GC) B cells are the source of the high-affinity, class-switched antibodies
required for protective immunity. The unique biology of GC B cells involves iterative rounds …