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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2025

Emerging novel methodologies to understand and strategically target long-lived plasma cells in vaccine design to induce durable immunity.

Gina Cusimano, Ryan P Staupe, Nicole L Sullivan

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Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Gina CusimanoMerck & Co., Inc., Infectious Diseases and Vaccines, Rahway, NJ, United States.
Ryan P StaupeMerck & Co., Inc., Infectious Diseases and Vaccines, Rahway, NJ, United States.
Nicole L SullivanMerck & Co., Inc., Infectious Diseases and Vaccines, Rahway, NJ, United States.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Long-lived plasma cells (LLPCs) are a subset of antibody secreting cells (ASCs) that reside within lymphoid tissues, including the bone marrow (BM) and gut associated lymphoid tissues (GALT), and can secrete antigen-specific antibodies for up to decades or longer. Due to these traits, LLPCs serve as a crucial mediator for durable protective immunity. The signals needed to control the differentiation of LLPCs from naïve B cells, however, are not well understood. Accordingly, it remains a challenge to design vaccines that specifically drive LLPC generation and subsequent antibody durability. In this review, we discuss LLPC generation and heterogeneity following vaccination, vaccine design decisions known to impact immunological memory, and how novel emerging technologies can be used to inform on LLPC biology to enable LLPC targeting vaccine design.

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Plasma CellsVaccine DevelopmentVaccinesAnimalsHumansImmunologic MemoryVaccinationVaccinesdurabilityELISpotfluorescence-activated cell sortingIg Traplong-lived plasma cellsNanovialssingle cell RNA sequencingvaccines

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PMID41726181
PMCPMC12920446

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