Reposted by Dafne Campigli Di Giammartino
Our study with @melnicklab on the discovery of a transient and tightly-regulated, plastic state of mature B cells during physiological immune response and potential links to aggressive lymphomas now out at NCB.👇Detailed threat by the amazing lead author @lscourzic.bsky.social!.
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T follicular helper cells transiently unlock a plasticity state in germinal centre B cells during the humoral immune response - Nature Cell Biology
Scourzic et al. show that germinal centre B cells display an enhanced ability to reprogram to induced pluripotent stem cells compared to mature B cells. This ability indicates their higher plasticity ...