Role of Bruton's tyrosine kinase in B cells and malignancies

S Pal Singh, F Dammeijer, RW Hendriks - Molecular cancer, 2018 - Springer
Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK) is a non-receptor kinase that plays a crucial role in oncogenic
signaling that is critical for proliferation and survival of leukemic cells in many B cell …

Memory B cells

T Kurosaki, K Kometani, W Ise - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2015 - nature.com
The immune system can remember a previously experienced pathogen and can evoke an
enhanced response to reinfection that depends on memory lymphocyte populations. Recent …

Molecular programming of B cell memory

M McHeyzer-Williams, S Okitsu, N Wang… - Nature Reviews …, 2012 - nature.com
The development of high-affinity B cell memory is regulated through three separable
phases, each involving antigen recognition by specific B cells and cognate T helper cells …

Pathogenesis of human B cell lymphomas

AL Shaffer III, RM Young… - Annual review of …, 2012 - annualreviews.org
The mechanisms that drive normal B cell differentiation and activation are frequently
subverted by B cell lymphomas for their unlimited growth and survival. B cells are …

Human memory B cells

M Seifert, R Küppers - Leukemia, 2016 - nature.com
A key feature of the adaptive immune system is the generation of memory B and T cells and
long-lived plasma cells, providing protective immunity against recurring infectious agents …

Epigenetic recording of stimulation history reveals BLIMP1–BACH2 balance in determining memory B cell fate upon recall challenge

W Shao, Y Wang, Q Fang, W Shi, H Qi - Nature Immunology, 2024 - nature.com
Memory B cells (MBCs) differentiate into plasma cells (PCs) or germinal centers (GCs) upon
antigen recall. How this decision is programmed is not understood. We found that the …

Memory B cells of mice and humans

F Weisel, M Shlomchik - Annual review of immunology, 2017 - annualreviews.org
We comprehensively review memory B cells (MBCs), covering the definition of MBCs and
their identities and subsets, how MBCs are generated, where they are localized, how they …

Progressive differentiation toward the long-lived plasma cell compartment in the bone marrow

T Koike, K Fujii, K Kometani, NS Butler… - Journal of Experimental …, 2022 - rupress.org
The longevity of plasma cells is dependent on their ability to access and reside in so-called
niches that are predominantly located in the bone marrow. Here, by employing a traceable …

B‐cell receptor signalling and its crosstalk with other pathways in normal and malignant cells

V Seda, M Mraz - European journal of haematology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The physiology of B cells is intimately connected with the function of their B‐cell receptor
(BCR). B‐cell lymphomas frequently (dys) regulate BCR signalling and thus take advantage …

Affinity-restricted memory B cells dominate recall responses to heterologous flaviviruses

R Wong, JA Belk, J Govero, JL Uhrlaub, D Reinartz… - Immunity, 2020 - cell.com
Memory B cells (MBCs) can respond to heterologous antigens either by molding new
specificities through secondary germinal centers (GCs) or by selecting preexisting clones …