Improving head and neck cancer therapies by immunomodulation of the tumour microenvironment

AT Ruffin, H Li, L Vujanovic, DP Zandberg… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Targeted immunotherapy has improved patient survival in head and neck squamous cell
carcinoma (HNSCC), but less than 20% of patients produce a durable response to these …

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 …

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 …

The expansion of human T-bethighCD21low B cells is T cell dependent

B Keller, V Strohmeier, I Harder, S Unger… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Accumulation of human CD21low B cells in peripheral blood is a hallmark of chronic
activation of the adaptive immune system in certain infections and autoimmune disorders …

Targeting TFH cells in human diseases and vaccination: rationale and practice

D Yu, LSK Walker, Z Liu, MA Linterman, Z Li - Nature immunology, 2022 - nature.com
The identification of CD4+ T cells localizing to B cell follicles has revolutionized the
knowledge of how humoral immunity is generated. Follicular helper T (TFH) cells support …

Distinct molecular and immune hallmarks of inflammatory arthritis induced by immune checkpoint inhibitors for cancer therapy

ST Kim, Y Chu, M Misoi, ME Suarez-Almazor… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Immune checkpoint inhibitors are associated with immune-related adverse events (irAEs),
including arthritis (arthritis-irAE). Management of arthritis-irAE is challenging because …

T follicular helper cell heterogeneity: time, space, and function

W Song, J Craft - Immunological reviews, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
T follicular helper (Tfh) cells play a crucial role in orchestrating the humoral arm of adaptive
immune responses. Mature Tfh cells localize to follicles in secondary lymphoid organs (SLO …

In vivo CRISPR screens reveal a HIF-1α-mTOR-network regulates T follicular helper versus Th1 cells

B Huang, JD Phelan, S Preite… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
T follicular helper (Tfh) cells provide signals to initiate and maintain the germinal center (GC)
reaction and are crucial for the generation of robust, long-lived antibody responses, but how …

Two populations of circulating PD-1hiCD4 T cells with distinct B cell helping capacity are elevated in early rheumatoid arthritis

P Fortea-Gordo, L Nuño, A Villalba, D Peiteado… - …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Objective A novel population of B helper cells, phenotypically CD4+ CXCR5− PD-1hi, has
been described in the synovial tissues and peripheral blood of seropositive RA patients, and …

T-cells interact with B cells, dendritic cells, and fibroblast-like synoviocytes as hub-like key cells in rheumatoid arthritis

XX Hu, Y Wu, J Zhang, W Wei - International immunopharmacology, 2019 - Elsevier
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic inflammatory synovitis-based systemic disease
characterized by invasive joint inflammation and synovial hyperplasia, which can lead to …