B cell depletion therapies in autoimmune disease: advances and mechanistic insights

DSW Lee, OL Rojas, JL Gommerman - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2021 - nature.com
In the past 15 years, B cells have been rediscovered to be not merely bystanders but rather
active participants in autoimmune aetiology. This has been fuelled in part by the clinical …

Memory B cells

T Inoue, T Kurosaki - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2024 - nature.com
Recent advances in studies of immune memory in mice and humans have reinforced the
concept that memory B cells play a critical role in protection against repeated infections …

Persistence of serum and saliva antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 spike antigens in COVID-19 patients

B Isho, KT Abe, M Zuo, AJ Jamal, B Rathod… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
While the antibody response to SARS-CoV-2 has been extensively studied in blood,
relatively little is known about the antibody response in saliva and its relationship to systemic …

Lipid nanoparticles enhance the efficacy of mRNA and protein subunit vaccines by inducing robust T follicular helper cell and humoral responses

MG Alameh, I Tombácz, E Bettini, K Lederer… - Immunity, 2021 - cell.com
Adjuvants are critical for improving the quality and magnitude of adaptive immune
responses to vaccination. Lipid nanoparticle (LNP)-encapsulated nucleoside-modified …

Effect of ibrutinib with R-CHOP chemotherapy in genetic subtypes of DLBCL

WH Wilson, GW Wright, B Hodkinson… - Cancer cell, 2021 - cell.com
In diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL), tumors belonging to the ABC but not GCB gene
expression subgroup rely upon chronic active B cell receptor signaling for viability, a …

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 …

S protein-reactive IgG and memory B cell production after human SARS-CoV-2 infection includes broad reactivity to the S2 subunit

P Nguyen-Contant, AK Embong, P Kanagaiah… - MBio, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
The high susceptibility of humans to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2) infection, the cause of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), reflects the …

Atypical B cells are part of an alternative lineage of B cells that participates in responses to vaccination and infection in humans

HJ Sutton, R Aye, AH Idris, R Vistein, E Nduati, O Kai… - Cell reports, 2021 - cell.com
The diversity of circulating human B cells is unknown. We use single-cell RNA sequencing
(RNA-seq) to examine the diversity of both antigen-specific and total B cells in healthy …

Age-associated B cells are heterogeneous and dynamic drivers of autoimmunity in mice

KM Nickerson, S Smita, KB Hoehn… - Journal of Experimental …, 2023 - rupress.org
Age-associated B cells (ABCs) are formed under inflammatory conditions and are
considered a type of memory B cell (MBC) expressing the transcription factor T-bet. In SLE …

Human T-bet governs the generation of a distinct subset of CD11chighCD21low B cells

R Yang, DT Avery, KJL Jackson, M Ogishi… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
High-level expression of the transcription factor T-bet characterizes a phenotypically distinct
murine B cell population known as “age-associated B cells”(ABCs). T-bet–deficient mice …