Transcriptional profiling of mouse B cell terminal differentiation defines a signature for antibody-secreting plasma cells
- Author(s)
- Shi, W; Liao, Y; Willis, SN; Taubenheim, N; Inouye, M; Tarlinton, DM; Smyth, GK; Hodgkin, PD; Nutt, SL; Corcoran, LM;
- Details
- Publication Year 2015-06,Volume 16,Issue #6,Page 663-673
- Journal Title
- Nat Immunol
- Publication Type
- Journal Article
- Abstract
- When B cells encounter an antigen, they alter their physiological state and anatomical localization and initiate a differentiation process that ultimately produces antibody-secreting cells (ASCs). We have defined the transcriptomes of many mature B cell populations and stages of plasma cell differentiation in mice. We provide a molecular signature of ASCs that highlights the stark transcriptional divide between B cells and plasma cells and enables the demarcation of ASCs on the basis of location and maturity. Changes in gene expression correlated with cell-division history and the acquisition of permissive histone modifications, and they included many regulators that had not been previously implicated in B cell differentiation. These findings both highlight and expand the core program that guides B cell terminal differentiation and the production of antibodies.
- Publisher
- NPG
- Research Division(s)
- Bioinformatics; Molecular Immunology; Immunology
- PubMed ID
- 25894659
- Publisher's Version
- https://doi.org/10.1038/ni.3154
- NHMRC Grants
- NHMRC/575500, NHMRC/1054925, NHMRC/1054618, NHMRC/1023454,
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