B cells and tertiary lymphoid structures as determinants of tumour immune contexture and clinical outcome

WH Fridman, M Meylan, F Petitprez, CM Sun… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2022 - nature.com
B cells are a major component of the tumour microenvironment, where they are
predominantly associated with tertiary lymphoid structures (TLS). In germinal centres within …

The role of IgG Fc receptors in antibody-dependent enhancement

S Bournazos, A Gupta, JV Ravetch - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2020 - nature.com
Antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE) is a mechanism by which the pathogenesis of
certain viral infections is enhanced in the presence of sub-neutralizing or cross-reactive non …

[HTML][HTML] Tertiary lymphoid structures generate and propagate anti-tumor antibody-producing plasma cells in renal cell cancer

M Meylan, F Petitprez, E Becht, A Bougoüin, G Pupier… - Immunity, 2022 - cell.com
The presence of intratumoral tertiary lymphoid structures (TLS) is associated with positive
clinical outcomes and responses to immunotherapy in cancer. Here, we used spatial …

Pembrolizumab in soft-tissue sarcomas with tertiary lymphoid structures: a phase 2 PEMBROSARC trial cohort

A Italiano, A Bessede, M Pulido, E Bompas… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) show limited clinical activity in patients with advanced
soft-tissue sarcomas (STSs). Retrospective analysis suggests that intratumoral tertiary …

Mature tertiary lymphoid structures predict immune checkpoint inhibitor efficacy in solid tumors independently of PD-L1 expression

L Vanhersecke, M Brunet, JP Guégan, C Rey… - Nature cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Only a minority of patients derive long-term clinical benefit from anti-programmed cell death
protein 1 (anti-PD-1) or anti-programmed death-ligand 1 (anti-PD-L1) monoclonal …

B cells and cancer: To B or not to B?

WH Fridman, F Petitprez, M Meylan… - Journal of Experimental …, 2020 - rupress.org
Whereas T cells have been considered the major immune cells of the tumor
microenvironment able to induce tumor regression and control cancer clinical outcome, a …

IgE and IgG antibodies as regulators of mast cell and basophil functions in food allergy

C Kanagaratham, YS El Ansari, OL Lewis… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Food allergy is a major health issue, affecting the lives of 8% of US children and their
families. There is an urgent need to identify the environmental and endogenous signals that …

Presence of B cells in tertiary lymphoid structures is associated with a protective immunity in patients with lung cancer

C Germain, S Gnjatic, F Tamzalit… - American journal of …, 2014 - atsjournals.org
Rationale: It is now well established that immune responses can take place outside of
primary and secondary lymphoid organs. We previously described the presence of tertiary …

Type I and type II Fc receptors regulate innate and adaptive immunity

A Pincetic, S Bournazos, DJ DiLillo, J Maamary… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Antibodies produced in response to a foreign antigen are characterized by polyclonality, not
only in the diverse epitopes to which their variable domains bind but also in the various …

The function of Fcγ receptors in dendritic cells and macrophages

M Guilliams, P Bruhns, Y Saeys, H Hammad… - Nature Reviews …, 2014 - nature.com
Dendritic cells (DCs) and macrophages use various receptors to recognize foreign antigens
and to receive feedback control from adaptive immune cells. Although it was long believed …