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ArticleFrontiers in immunology2026

Zinc and metallothionein dysregulation in B cells in multiple sclerosis, with disease-specific CXCR3

Remi Fritzen

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Article in Frontiers in immunology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Remi FritzenSchool of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom.

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Abstract

Introduction: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is associated with compartmentalized B-cell responses in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), where CXCR3 Methods: We reanalyzed two publicly available human single-cell RNA sequencing datasets containing CSF and peripheral blood (PB) B cells from healthy or non-MS controls and patients with clinically isolated syndrome or MS. Zinc transporter and metallothionein (Zn/MT) gene expression was examined in CXCR3 Results: A composite Zn/MT signature was significantly elevated in MS relative to controls in both PB and CSF, and in both CXCR3 Discussion: These findings identify altered zinc-homeostasis pathways as a disease-associated feature of B cells in MS and reveal a disease-specific divergence between CXCR3

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B-LymphocytesMetallothioneinMultiple SclerosisReceptors, CXCR3ZincAdultFemaleHumansMaleCXCR3 protein, humanMetallothioneinReceptors, CXCR3Zinccerebrospinal fluidCXCR3+ B cellsmultiple sclerosissingle-cell RNA sequencingzinc homeostasis

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PMCPMC13561944

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