The Transcriptional Regulation of Germinal Center Formation.
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Song S
Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland.
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Matthias PD
Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel, Switzerland.
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- Frontiers in immunology. - 2018
English
Germinal centers (GCs) are essential structures of the humoral immune response, which form in the periphery in response to T cell dependent antigens. During the GC reaction, B cells undergo critical differentiation steps, which ultimately lead to the generation of antibodies with altered effector function and higher affinity for the selected antigen. Remarkably, many of the B cell tumors have their origin in the GCs; thus, understanding how the formation of these structures is regulated or deregulated is of high medical importance. This review gives an overview of the transcription factors that have been linked to the generation of GCs, and of their roles in the process.
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https://sonar.ch/global/documents/150131
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