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ArticleCell reports2025

BLIMP1 controls GC B cell expansion and exit through regulating cell cycle progression and key transcription factors BCL6 and IRF4.

Laura Conter, Shuchi Smita, Derrick Callahan, Shuxian Wu, Aiden Brown, Kevin M Nickerson, Rebecca A Elsner, Wenzhao Meng, Ayelet Peres, Gur Yaari and 4 more

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Article in Cell reports, 2025. 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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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Highlights of 2025: advances in germinal centers.Immunology and cell biology · 2026
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  8. Chronic infection perturbs the affinity hierarchy of antiviral B cells.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors.

Laura ConterDepartment of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
Shuchi SmitaDepartment of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
Derrick CallahanDepartment of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
Shuxian WuDepartment of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
Aiden BrownDepartment of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
Kevin M NickersonDepartment of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
Rebecca A ElsnerDepartment of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA.
Wenzhao MengDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Ayelet PeresFaculty of Engineering, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan 5290002, Israel.
Gur YaariDepartment of Pathology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06519, USA.
Steven H KleinsteinDepartment of Pathology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06519, USA; Program in Computational Biology and Biomedical Informatics, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06519, USA; Department of Immunobiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06519, USA; Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06519, USA.
Eline T Luning PrakDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Wei LuoDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA. Electronic address: wl47@iu.edu.
Mark ShlomchikDepartment of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA. Electronic address: mshlomch@pitt.edu.

Funding

Murine Memory B Cell Development and FunctionR01AI043603 · NIAID · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI MARK J SHLOMCHIK · 1998 to 2026
$9.7M
Autoimmunity and Immunopathology Training ProgramT32AI089443 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI SHLOMCHIK, MARK J · 2010 to 2024
$6.6M
Signaling and Selection in Germinal Center B CellsR01AI105018 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI MARK J SHLOMCHIK · 2014 to 2026
$4.8M
COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS FOR THE ANALYSIS OF HIGH-THROUGHPUT IMMUNOGLOBULIN SEQUENCING EXPERIMENTSR01AI104739 · NIAID · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI KLEINSTEIN, STEVEN H. · 2014 to 2022
$3.6M
The role of PTEN signaling in regulating germinal center B cell fate decisionR21AI175824 · NIAID · INDIANA UNIVERSITY INDIANAPOLIS · PI LUO, WEI · 2023 to 2024
$436k
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI043603NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI104739NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI105018NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI175824NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI089443
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In B cells, BLIMP1 is required for plasma cell differentiation. BLIMP1 is also expressed in some germinal center (GC) B cells (GCBC), yet the role of BLIMP1 in GCBC is not understood. Here we generated mixed bone marrow (BM) chimeric mice using Prdm1

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B-LymphocytesCell CycleGerminal CenterInterferon Regulatory FactorsPositive Regulatory Domain I-Binding Factor 1Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-6AnimalsCell DifferentiationCell ProliferationInterferon Regulatory Factor-4MiceMice, Inbred C57BLBcl6 protein, mouseInterferon Regulatory Factor-4Interferon Regulatory FactorsPositive Regulatory Domain I-Binding Factor 1Prdm1 protein, mouseProto-Oncogene Proteins c-bcl-6B cellBCL6Blimp1CP: Immunologygerminal centermemory B cellsplasma cellstranscription factors

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PMID40650910
PMCPMC12356087

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