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ArticleFrontiers in immunology2018

Human B Cell Differentiation Is Characterized by Progressive Remodeling of O-Linked Glycans.

Nicholas Giovannone, Aristotelis Antonopoulos, Jennifer Liang, Jenna Geddes Sweeney, Matthew R Kudelka, Sandra L King, Gi Soo Lee, Richard D Cummings, Anne Dell, Steven R Barthel and 3 more

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Article in Frontiers in immunology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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32citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

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32 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 54 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Nicholas GiovannoneDepartment of Dermatology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston MA, United States.
Aristotelis AntonopoulosDepartment of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
Jennifer LiangDepartment of Dermatology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston MA, United States.
Jenna Geddes SweeneyDepartment of Dermatology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston MA, United States.
Matthew R KudelkaDepartment of Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, United States.
Sandra L KingDepartment of Dermatology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston MA, United States.
Gi Soo LeeDepartment of Otology and Laryngology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.
Richard D CummingsHarvard Medical School, Boston MA, United States.
Anne DellDepartment of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
Steven R BarthelDepartment of Dermatology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston MA, United States.
Hans R WidlundDepartment of Dermatology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston MA, United States.
Stuart M HaslamDepartment of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom.
Charles J DimitroffDepartment of Dermatology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston MA, United States.
Brigham and Women's Hospital · USImperial College London · GBHarvard University · USBeth Israel Deaconess Medical Center · USEmory University · US

Funding

MEDICAL SCIENTIST TRAINING PROGRAMT32GM008169 · NIGMS · EMORY UNIVERSITY · PI GROSS, ROBERT E · 1987 to 2021
$20.3M
Functional Analysis of Galectin-1 Ligands in Melanoma ProgressionR01CA173610 · NCI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI DIMITROFF, CHARLES J · 2013 to 2017
$1.8M
Glycomic Characterization of Germinal Center B cellsR21AI125476 · NIAID · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI DIMITROFF, CHARLES J · 2016 to 2017
$451k
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBF0083091Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBK0161641NCI NIH HHS R01 CA173610NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI125476NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008169Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Germinal centers (GC) are microanatomical niches where B cells proliferate, undergo antibody affinity maturation, and differentiate to long-lived memory B cells and antibody-secreting plasma cells. For decades, GC B cells have been defined by their reactivity to the plant lectin peanut agglutinin (PNA), which binds serine/threonine (O-linked) glycans containing the asialylated disaccharide Gal-β1,3-GalNAc-Ser/Thr (also called T-antigen). In T cells, acquisition of PNA binding by activated T cells and thymocytes has been linked with altered tissue homing patterns, cell signaling, and survival. Yet, in GC B cells, the glycobiological basis and significance of PNA binding remains surprisingly unresolved. Here, we investigated the basis for PNA reactivity of GC B cells. We found that GC B cell binding to PNA is associated with downregulation of the α2,3 sialyltransferase,

Indexed as

beta-Galactoside alpha-2,3-SialyltransferaseB-LymphocytesCell DifferentiationCell Line, TumorCells, CulturedGene Expression ProfilingGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticGerminal CenterGlycosylationHumansLectinsPeanut AgglutininPolysaccharidesSialyltransferasesSignal Transductionbeta-Galactoside alpha-2,3-SialyltransferaseLectinsPeanut AgglutininPolysaccharidesSialyltransferasesST3GAL1 protein, humanB cellCD45GCNT1glycanglycosylationpeanut lectinPNAST3Gal1

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PMID30619255
PMCPMC6302748
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