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 …

Ferroptosis: a double-edged sword mediating immune tolerance of cancer

Q Dang, Z Sun, Y Wang, L Wang, Z Liu, X Han - Cell death & disease, 2022 - nature.com
The term ferroptosis was put forward in 2012 and has been researched exponentially over
the past few years. Ferroptosis is an unconventional pattern of iron-dependent programmed …

TET (Ten-eleven translocation) family proteins: structure, biological functions and applications

X Zhang, Y Zhang, C Wang, X Wang - Signal Transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
Ten-eleven translocation (TET) family proteins (TETs), specifically, TET1, TET2 and TET3,
can modify DNA by oxidizing 5-methylcytosine (5mC) iteratively to yield 5 …

TET deficiency perturbs mature B cell homeostasis and promotes oncogenesis associated with accumulation of G-quadruplex and R-loop structures

V Shukla, D Samaniego-Castruita, Z Dong… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Enzymes of the TET family are methylcytosine dioxygenases that undergo frequent
mutational or functional inactivation in human cancers. Recurrent loss-of-function mutations …

Engineering a self-navigated MnARK nanovaccine for inducing potent protective immunity against novel coronavirus

Y Wang, Y Xie, J Luo, M Guo, X Hu, X Chen, Z Chen… - Nano Today, 2021 - Elsevier
Effective vaccines are vital to fight against the COVID-19 global pandemic. As a critical
component of a subunit vaccine, the adjuvant is responsible for strengthening the antigen …

TET Enzymes in the Immune system: from DNA demethylation to immunotherapy, inflammation, and cancer

IF López-Moyado, M Ko, PG Hogan… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Ten-eleven translocation (TET) proteins are iron-dependent and α-ketoglutarate-dependent
dioxygenases that sequentially oxidize the methyl group of 5-methylcytosine (5mC) to 5 …

The significant role of amino acid metabolic reprogramming in cancer

X Liu, B Ren, J Ren, M Gu, L You, Y Zhao - Cell Communication and …, 2024 - Springer
Amino acid metabolism plays a pivotal role in tumor microenvironment, influencing various
aspects of cancer progression. The metabolic reprogramming of amino acids in tumor cells …

Hematopoiesis in numbers

J Cosgrove, LSP Hustin, RJ de Boer, L Perié - Trends in Immunology, 2021 - cell.com
Hematopoiesis is a dynamic process in which stem and progenitor cells give rise to the~ 10
13 blood and immune cells distributed throughout the human body. We argue that a …

The function and regulation of TET2 in innate immunity and inflammation

B Cong, Q Zhang, X Cao - Protein & cell, 2021 - academic.oup.com
TET2, a member of ten-eleven translocation (TET) family as α-ketoglutarate-and Fe2+-
dependent dioxygenase catalyzing the iterative oxidation of 5-methylcytosine (5mC), has …

Jmjd1c demethylates STAT3 to restrain plasma cell differentiation and rheumatoid arthritis

Y Yin, X Yang, S Wu, X Ding, H Zhu, X Long… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Appropriate regulation of B cell differentiation into plasma cells is essential for humoral
immunity while preventing antibody-mediated autoimmunity; however, the underlying …