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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2015

Regulation of B Cell Differentiation by Intracellular Membrane-Associated Proteins and microRNAs: Role in the Antibody Response.

Zheng Lou, Paolo Casali, Zhenming Xu

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Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Zheng LouDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center , San Antonio, TX , USA.
Paolo CasaliDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center , San Antonio, TX , USA.
Zhenming XuDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center , San Antonio, TX , USA.
The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio · US

Funding

Intrinsic B cell epigenetic regulation of antibody and autoantibody responses by Sirt1R01AI105813 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCIENCE CENTER · PI CASALI, PAOLO · 2014 to 2023
$4.5M
Somatic hypermutation and class switching in autoimmunityR01AI079705 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCIENCE CENTER · PI CASALI, PAOLO · 2010 to 2019
$4.1M
Molecular mechanisms in the generation of autoantibodies and lupusR56AI079705 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI CASALI, PAOLO · 2008 to 2008
$381k
Epigenetic downregulation of the antibody response and inhibition of autoimmunityR56AI105813 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-IRVINE · PI CASALI, PAOLO · 2013 to 2013
$286k
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI079705NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI105813NIAID NIH HHS R56 AI079705NIAID NIH HHS R56 AI105813
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

B cells are central to adaptive immunity and their functions in antibody responses are exquisitely regulated. As suggested by recent findings, B cell differentiation is mediated by intracellular membrane structures (including endosomes, lysosomes, and autophagosomes) and protein factors specifically associated with these membranes, including Rab7, Atg5, and Atg7. These factors participate in vesicle formation/trafficking, signal transduction and induction of gene expression to promote antigen presentation, class switch DNA recombination (CSR)/somatic hypermutation (SHM), and generation/maintenance of plasma cells and memory B cells. Their expression is induced in B cells activated to differentiate and further fine-tuned by immune-modulating microRNAs, which coordinates CSR/SHM, plasma cell differentiation, and memory B cell differentiation. These short non-coding RNAs would individually target multiple factors associated with the same intracellular membrane compartments and collaboratively target a single factor in addition to regulating AID and Blimp-1. These, together with regulation of microRNA biogenesis and activities by endosomes and autophagosomes, show that intracellular membranes and microRNAs, two broadly relevant cell constituents, play important roles in balancing gene expression to specify B cell differentiation processes for optimal antibody responses.

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autophagosomeB cell activation and differentiationendosomeintracellular membrane associated proteinslysosomememory B cellmicroRNAplasma cell

Identifiers

PMID26579118
PMCPMC4620719
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