High affinity germinal center B cells are actively selected into the plasma cell compartment

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 203, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2419-2424

  Phan, Tri Giang ^a,b,d   Paus, Didrik ^a,b   Chan, Tyani D ^a,b   Turner, Marian L ^c   Nutt, Stephen L ^c   Basten, Antony ^a,b   Brink, Robert ^a,b  

^a CENTENARY INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b GARVAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^c WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFINITY MATURATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY AFFINITY; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY COMPLEX; ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SELECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERMINAL CENTER; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PLASMA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC HYPERMUTATION; T LYMPHOCYTE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; GERMINAL CENTER; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PLASMA CELLS;

EID: 33750502877     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: 00221007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.20061254     Document Type: Article

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