Journal
IMMUNOLOGICAL REVIEWS
Volume 299, Issue 1, Pages 108-117Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/imr.12953
Keywords
B cells; humoral immunity; memory B cell differentiation; viral infection
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- Wellcome Trust [101849/Z/13/A]
- Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation Programme
- Wellcome Trust [101849/Z/13/A] Funding Source: Wellcome Trust
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Humoral immunity plays a critical role in resolving viral infections and providing protection, with factors shaping memory B cell responses allowing tailored development of efficient preventative vaccines. Lessons can be learned from different viral infections, including hepatitis B, regarding the diverse influences on humoral immunity.
Humoral immunity is a critical component of the coordinated response required to resolve viral infections and mediate protection following pathogen clearance or vaccination. A better understanding of factors shaping the memory B cell response will allow tailored development of efficient preventative vaccines against emerging acute viral infections, therapeutic vaccines, and immunotherapies for chronic viral infections. Here, we use recent data obtained by profiling antigen-specific B cell responses in hepatitis B as a framework to explore lessons that can be learnt from different viral infections about the diverse influences on humoral immunity. Hepatitis B provides a paradigm where successful B cell responses in resolved or vaccinated individuals can be contrasted to the failed response in chronic infection, while also exemplifying the degree to which B cell responses within infected individuals can differ to two antigens from the same virus. Drawing on studies in other human and murine infections, including emerging data from COVID-19, we consider the influence of antigen quantity and structure on the quality of the B cell response, the role of differential CD4 help, the importance of germinal center vs extrafollicular responses and the emerging concept that responses residing in non-lymphoid organs can participate in B cell memory.
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