Germinal centres and B cell lymphomagenesis

K Basso, R Dalla-Favera - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2015 - nature.com
Germinal centres (GCs) are involved in the selection of B cells secreting high-affinity
antibodies and are also the origin of most human B cell lymphomas. Recent progress has …

The transcriptional regulation of germinal center formation

S Song, PD Matthias - Frontiers in immunology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Germinal centers (GCs) are essential structures of the humoral immune response, which
form in the periphery in response to T cell dependent antigens. During the GC reaction, B …

Molecular pathogenesis of germinal center‐derived B cell lymphomas

L Pasqualucci - Immunological reviews, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
B cell lymphomas comprise a heterogeneous group of genetically, biologically, and clinically
distinct neoplasms that, in most cases, originate from the clonal expansion of B cells in the …

Germinal centres: role in B-cell physiology and malignancy

U Klein, R Dalla-Favera - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2008 - nature.com
Over the past several years, studies on normal and malignant B cells have provided new
insights into the unique physiology of the germinal centre (GC). In particular, advances in …

The biology of the germinal center

Y Natkunam - ASH Education Program Book, 2007 - ashpublications.org
The immune system requires the production of high affinity antibodies of different subclasses
to accomplish its many effector functions. Specific steps in B-cell ontogeny that occur within …

T follicular helper cells in germinal center B cell selection and lymphomagenesis

MA Mintz, JG Cyster - Immunological reviews, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Germinal centers (GCs) are confined anatomic regions where rapidly proliferating B cells
undergo somatic mutation and selection and eventual differentiation into memory B cells or …

Germinal center‐derived lymphomas: The darkest side of humoral immunity

C Mlynarczyk, L Fontán, A Melnick - Immunological reviews, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
One of the unusual features of germinal center (GC) B cells is that they manifest many
hallmarks of cancer cells. Accordingly, most B‐cell neoplasms originate from the GC …

Single-cell analysis of germinal-center B cells informs on lymphoma cell of origin and outcome

AB Holmes, C Corinaldesi, Q Shen, R Kumar… - Journal of Experimental …, 2020 - rupress.org
In response to T cell–dependent antigens, mature B cells are stimulated to form germinal
centers (GCs), the sites of B cell affinity maturation and the cell of origin (COO) of most B cell …

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 …

Transcriptional analysis of the B cell germinal center reaction

U Klein, Y Tu, GA Stolovitzky… - Proceedings of the …, 2003 - National Acad Sciences
The germinal center (GC) reaction is crucial for T cell-dependent immune responses and is
targeted by B cell lymphomagenesis. Here we analyzed the transcriptional changes that …