Germinal Centers

Class Switch Recombination and Hypermutation Require Activation-Induced Cytidine Deaminase (AID), a Potential RNA Editing Enzyme

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Follicular Helper CD4 T Cells (T FH )

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Autoimmune Dilated Cardiomyopathy in PD-1 Receptor-Deficient Mice

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Germinal Centers

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Clonal selection and learning in the antibody system

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IgG Fc Receptors

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Bcl6 and Blimp-1 Are Reciprocal and Antagonistic Regulators of T Follicular Helper Cell Differentiation

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Bcl6 mediates the development of T follicular helper cells

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Affinity-coupled CCL22 promotes positive selection in germinal centres

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A framework for ultra-low-input spatial tissue proteomics

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Cyclin D3 drives inertial cell cycling in dark zone germinal center B cells

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Cutting Edge: An In Vivo Reporter Reveals Active B Cell Receptor Signaling in the Germinal Center

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CD4 T-Cell Immunotherapy for Chronic Viral Infections and Cancer

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Tertiary lymphoid neogenesis is a component of pulmonary lymphoid hyperplasia in patients with common variable immunodeficiency

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Transcriptional and epigenetic regulation of follicular T-helper cells and their role in autoimmunity

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Noncanonical NF-κB in Cancer

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T cell interactions with B cells during germinal center formation, a three‐step model

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Transfer of extracellular vesicle‐microRNA controls germinal center reaction and antibody production

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Pax5 regulates B cell immunity by promoting PI3K signaling via PTEN down-regulation

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Nanotechnology‐facilitated vaccine development during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic

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Emergence of long-lived autoreactive plasma cells in the spleen of primary warm auto-immune hemolytic anemia patients treated with rituximab

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Identification of Subject-Specific Immunoglobulin Alleles From Expressed Repertoire Sequencing Data

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A Perspective on the Role of Computational Models in Immunology

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CD4+ T cells promote humoral immunity and viral control during Zika virus infection

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The G protein–coupled receptor P2RY8 and follicular dendritic cells promote germinal center confinement of B cells, whereas S1PR3 can contribute to their dissemination

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Immunogenic Stimulus for Germline Precursors of Antibodies that Engage the Influenza Hemagglutinin Receptor-Binding Site

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Human B‐cell memory is shaped by age‐ and tissue‐specific T‐independent and GC‐dependent events

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c-Myb Regulates the T-Bet-Dependent Differentiation Program in B Cells to Coordinate Antibody Responses

Piovesan, D., Tempany, J. C., Pietro, A. D., Baas, I., Yiannis, C., O’Donnell, K., Chen, Y., Peperzak, V., Belz, G. T., Mackay, C. R., et al. (2017) · Cell Reports · doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2017.03.060 · Cited by 67

Inference of the HIV-1 VRC01 Antibody Lineage Unmutated Common Ancestor Reveals Alternative Pathways to Overcome a Key Glycan Barrier

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Molecular regulation of peripheral B cells and their progeny in immunityPreprint

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Defining and Manipulating B Cell Immunodominance Hierarchies to Elicit Broadly Neutralizing Antibody Responses against Influenza Virus

Amitai, A., Sangesland, M., Barnes, R. M., Rohrer, D., Lönberg, N., Lingwood, D., & Chakraborty, A. K. (2020) · Cell Systems · doi:10.1016/j.cels.2020.09.005 · Cited by 64

Enhanced Influenza Virus-Like Particle Vaccination with a Structurally Optimized RIG-I Agonist as Adjuvant

Beljanski, V., Chiang, C., Kirchenbaum, G. A., Olagnier, D. P., Bloom, C. E., Wong, T. M., Haddad, E. K., Trautmann, L., Ross, T. M., & Hiscott, J. B. (2015) · Journal of Virology · doi:10.1128/jvi.01526-15 · Cited by 64

CD4 T Cell Help Is Limiting and Selective during the Primary B Cell Response to Influenza Virus Infection

Alam, S., Knowlden, Z. A. G., Sangster, M. Y., & Sant, A. J. (2013) · Journal of Virology · doi:10.1128/jvi.02077-13 · Cited by 64

Co-stimulatory function in primary germinal center responses: CD40 and B7 are required on distinct antigen-presenting cells

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Dysregulation of B Cell Activity During Proliferative Kidney Disease in Rainbow Trout

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Rituximab abrogates aquaporin-4–specific germinal center activity in patients with neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders

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Follicular helper T‐cell memory: establishing new frontiers during antibody response

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GNA13 loss in germinal center B cells leads to impaired apoptosis and promotes lymphoma in vivo

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Optimal immunization cocktails can promote induction of broadly neutralizing Abs against highly mutable pathogens

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Spatially resolved microfluidic stimulation of lymphoid tissue ex vivo

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Here, There, and Anywhere? Arguments for and against the Physical Plasma Cell Survival Niche

Wilmore, J. R., & Allman, D. (2017) · The Journal of Immunology · doi:10.4049/jimmunol.1700461 · Cited by 63

T Follicular Helper Cells and B Cell Dysfunction in Aging and HIV-1 Infection

Pallikkuth, S., de Armas, L. R., Rinaldi, S., & Pahwa, S. G. (2017) · Frontiers in Immunology · doi:10.3389/fimmu.2017.01380 · Cited by 65

TANK-Binding Kinase 1-Dependent Responses in Health and Autoimmunity

Louis, C., Burns, C. J., & Wicks, I. P. (2018) · Frontiers in Immunology · doi:10.3389/fimmu.2018.00434 · Cited by 64

Revisiting the Interaction of γδ T-Cells and B-Cells

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Induction of bronchus-associated lymphoid tissue is an early life adaptation for promoting human B cell immunity

Matsumoto, R., Gray, J. I., Rybkina, K., Oppenheimer, H., Levy, L., Friedman, L. M., Khamaisi, M., Meng, W., Rosenfeld, A. M., Guyer, R. S., et al. (2023) · Nature Immunology · doi:10.1038/s41590-023-01557-3 · Cited by 62

A new era of antibody discovery: an in-depth review of AI-driven approaches

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The imperfect control of self-reactive germinal center B cells

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Mutation of POLB Causes Lupus in Mice

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Translating transitions - how to decipher peripheral human B cell development

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Conformational Plasticity in Broadly Neutralizing HIV-1 Antibodies Triggers Polyreactivity

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Strategies to circumvent humoral immunity to adeno-associated viral vectors

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CD11c+ T-bet+ B Cells Require IL-21 and IFN-γ from Type 1 T Follicular Helper Cells and Intrinsic Bcl-6 Expression but Develop Normally in the Absence of T-bet

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BCL6 controls contact-dependent help delivery during follicular T-B cell interactions

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Jmjd1c demethylates STAT3 to restrain plasma cell differentiation and rheumatoid arthritis

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An imbalance between regulatory T cells and T helper 17 cells in acetylcholine receptor–positive myasthenia gravis patients

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Assessing human B cell repertoire diversity and convergence

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BCR affinity differentially regulates colonization of the subepithelial dome and infiltration into germinal centers within Peyer’s patches

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Antigen phagocytosis by B cells is required for a potent humoral response

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Oncogenic Rag GTPase signalling enhances B cell activation and drives follicular lymphoma sensitive to pharmacological inhibition of mTOR

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B-cell Lymphoma 6 (BCL6): From Master Regulator of Humoral Immunity to Oncogenic Driver in Pediatric Cancers

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What Counts in the Immunological Synapse?

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Epigenetic targeting of activation-induced cytidine deaminase

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The AP-1 transcription factor Fra1 inhibits follicular B cell differentiation into plasma cells

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Antibody-guided vaccine design: identification of protective epitopes

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Spoiling for a Fight: B Lymphocytes As Initiator and Effector Populations within Tertiary Lymphoid Organs in Autoimmunity and Transplantation

Alsughayyir, J., Pettigrew, G. J., & Motallebzadeh, R. (2017) · Frontiers in Immunology · doi:10.3389/fimmu.2017.01639 · Cited by 60

Critical influences on the pathogenesis of follicular lymphoma

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The Transcriptional Regulation of Germinal Center Formation

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Adjuvant and carrier protein-dependent T-cell priming promotes a robust antibody response against the Plasmodium falciparum Pfs25 vaccine candidate

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Supplying the trip to antibody production—nutrients, signaling, and the programming of cellular metabolism in the mature B lineage

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miR-217 is an oncogene that enhances the germinal center reaction

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The Costimulatory Molecule ICOS Regulates Host Th1 and Follicular Th Cell Differentiation in Response to Plasmodium chabaudi chabaudi AS Infection

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T cell specific Cxcr5 deficiency prevents rheumatoid arthritis

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Mutational mechanisms shaping the coding and noncoding genome of germinal center derived B-cell lymphomas

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Bacterial infection disrupts established germinal center reactions through monocyte recruitment and impaired metabolic adaptation

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B cell receptor repertoire kinetics after SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination

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PrimPol prevents APOBEC/AID family mediated DNA mutagenesis

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ROCK2 signaling is required to induce a subset of T follicular helper cells through opposing effects on STATs in autoimmune settings

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Synergistic Strategy for Multicolor Two-photon Microscopy: Application to the Analysis of Germinal Center Reactions In Vivo

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Role of B-cell receptors for B-cell development and antigen-induced differentiation

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B Cell Receptor Crosslinking Augments Germinal Center B Cell Selection when T Cell Help Is Limiting

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Quantitative immunology for physicists

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Naive human B cells engage the receptor binding domain of SARS-CoV-2, variants of concern, and related sarbecoviruses

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Guardians of the oral and nasopharyngeal galaxy: IgA and protection against SARS‐CoV ‐2 infection*

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Competitive exclusion by autologous antibodies can prevent broad HIV-1 antibodies from arising

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Attenuation of AMPK signaling by ROQUIN promotes T follicular helper cell formation

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A Network Model to Describe the Terminal Differentiation of B Cells

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