T follicular helper cells transiently unlock a plasticity state in germinal centre B cells during the humoral immune response
Scourzic L, Izzo F, Teater M, Polyzos A, Cucereavii L, Chin C, Papin A, Pinto H, Mlynarczyk C, Tsialta I, Xia M, Lidoski A, Myers R, Israel E, Venturutti L, Mackay S, Hoehn K, Skoultchi A, Béguelin W, Stadtfeld M, Chen Z, Landau D, Melnick A, Apostolou E. T follicular helper cells transiently unlock a plasticity state in germinal centre B cells during the humoral immune response. Nature Cell Biology 2025, 28: 35-48. PMID: 41466145, DOI: 10.1038/s41556-025-01833-4.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
ConceptsMature B cellsB cellsGerminal centresT follicular helper (Tfh) cellsGerminal centre B cellsT Follicular Helper CellsB-cell lymphomaStem cell programGC B cellsPluripotent stem cellsHumoral immune responseHelper cellsB cell identityAdaptive immunityImmune responseMYC activityProgenitor programStem cellsNF-kBEpigenetic plasticityPhenotypic shiftAffinity maturation processCell programCellsMaturation process