Antibodies from primary humoral responses modulate the recruitment of naive B cells during secondary responses.
Immunity
; 55(10): 1856-1871.e6, 2022 10 11.
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in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-2000465
ABSTRACT
Vaccines generate high-affinity antibodies by recruiting antigen-specific B cells to germinal centers (GCs), but the mechanisms governing the recruitment to GCs on secondary challenges remain unclear. Here, using preclinical SARS-CoV and HIV mouse models, we demonstrated that the antibodies elicited during primary humoral responses shaped the naive B cell recruitment to GCs during secondary exposures. The antibodies from primary responses could either enhance or, conversely, restrict the GC participation of naive B cells broad-binding, low-affinity, and low-titer antibodies enhanced recruitment, whereas, by contrast, the high titers of high-affinity, mono-epitope-specific antibodies attenuated cognate naive B cell recruitment. Thus, the directionality and intensity of that effect was determined by antibody concentration, affinity, and epitope specificity. Circulating antibodies can, therefore, be important determinants of antigen immunogenicity. Future vaccines may need to overcome-or could, alternatively, leverage-the effects of circulating primary antibodies on subsequent naive B cell recruitment.
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
B-Lymphocytes
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Germinal Center
Topics:
Vaccines
Limits:
Animals
Language:
English
Journal:
Immunity
Journal subject:
Allergy and Immunology
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
J.immuni.2022.07.020
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