Germinal center entry not selection of B cells is controlled by peptide-MHCII complex density

It has been thought that germinal center (GC) B cells with the highest density of peptide-MHCII molecules receive the most T cell help. Here the authors use heterozygous MHCII inactivation to instead show that after recruitment into the GCs, BCR affinity increases over time independent of the MHC de...

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Main Authors: Chen-Hao Yeh, Takuya Nojima, Masayuki Kuraoka, Garnett Kelsoe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-03-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03382-x