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 …

Pathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus: risks, mechanisms and therapeutic targets

MK Crow - Annals of the rheumatic diseases, 2023 - ard.bmj.com
Research elucidating the pathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) has defined
two critical families of mediators, type I interferon (IFN-I) and autoantibodies targeting nucleic …

[HTML][HTML] Pan-cancer single-cell dissection reveals phenotypically distinct B cell subtypes

Y Yang, X Chen, J Pan, H Ning, Y Zhang, Y Bo, X Ren… - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Characterizing the compositional and phenotypic characteristics of tumor-infiltrating B cells
(TIBs) is important for advancing our understanding of their role in cancer development …

Age-associated B cells in autoimmune diseases

IC Mouat, E Goldberg, MS Horwitz - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2022 - Springer
Age-associated B cells (ABCs) are a transcriptionally and functionally unique B cell
population. In addition to arising with age and following infection, ABCs are expanded …

Autoimmunity in Down's syndrome via cytokines, CD4 T cells and CD11c+ B cells

L Malle, RS Patel, M Martin-Fernandez, OJ Stewart… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Down's syndrome (DS) presents with a constellation of cardiac, neurocognitive and growth
impairments. Individuals with DS are also prone to severe infections and autoimmunity …

Mucosal plasma cells are required to protect the upper airway and brain from infection

SA Wellford, AP Moseman, K Dao, KE Wright, A Chen… - Immunity, 2022 - cell.com
While blood antibodies mediate protective immunity in most organs, whether they protect
nasal surfaces in the upper airway is unclear. Using multiple viral infection models in mice …

[HTML][HTML] Atypical B cells and impaired SARS-CoV-2 neutralization following heterologous vaccination in the elderly

IATM Ferreira, CYC Lee, WS Foster, A Abdullahi… - Cell Reports, 2023 - cell.com
Suboptimal responses to a primary vaccination course have been reported in the elderly, but
there is little information regarding the impact of age on responses to booster third doses …

Haploinsufficiency in PTPN2 leads to early-onset systemic autoimmunity from Evans syndrome to lupus

M Jeanpierre, J Cognard, M Tusseau, Q Riller… - Journal of Experimental …, 2024 - rupress.org
An exome sequencing strategy employed to identify pathogenic variants in patients with
pediatric-onset systemic lupus or Evans syndrome resulted in the discovery of six novel …

Zeb2 drives the formation of CD11c+ atypical B cells to sustain germinal centers that control persistent infection

X Gao, Q Shen, JA Roco, B Dalton, K Frith… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
CD11c+ atypical B cells (ABCs) are an alternative memory B cell lineage associated with
immunization, infection, and autoimmunity. However, the factors that drive the transcriptional …

The memory B cell response to influenza vaccination is impaired in older persons

AR Burton, SM Guillaume, WS Foster, AK Wheatley… - Cell reports, 2022 - cell.com
Influenza infection imparts an age-related increase in mortality and morbidity. The most
effective countermeasure is vaccination; however, vaccines offer modest protection in older …