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Antibody Affinity Shapes the Choice between Memory and Germinal Center B Cell Fates.
Cell - 25 Nov 2020
Viant Charlotte, Weymar Georg H J, Escolano Amelia, Chen Spencer, Hartweger Harald, Cipolla Melissa, Gazumyan Anna, Nussenzweig Michel C
Abstract excerpt
Immunological memory is required for protection against repeated infections and is the basis of all effective vaccines. Antibodies produced by memory B cells play an essential role in many of these responses. We have combined lineage tracing with antibody cloning from single B cells to examine the role of affinity in B cell selection into germinal centers (GCs) and the memory B cell compartment in mice immunized...
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