Role of Bruton's tyrosine kinase in B cells and malignancies

S Pal Singh, F Dammeijer, RW Hendriks - Molecular cancer, 2018 - Springer
Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK) is a non-receptor kinase that plays a crucial role in oncogenic
signaling that is critical for proliferation and survival of leukemic cells in many B cell …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanisms of central tolerance for B cells

D Nemazee - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2017 - nature.com
Immune tolerance hinders the potentially destructive responses of lymphocytes to host
tissues. Tolerance is regulated at the stage of immature B cell development (central …

V (D) J recombination, somatic hypermutation and class switch recombination of immunoglobulins: mechanism and regulation

X Chi, Y Li, X Qiu - Immunology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Immunoglobulins emerging from B lymphocytes and capable of recognizing almost all kinds
of antigens owing to the extreme diversity of their antigen‐binding portions, known as …

Harnessing the biology of IL-7 for therapeutic application

CL Mackall, TJ Fry, RE Gress - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2011 - nature.com
Abstract Interleukin-7 (IL-7) is required for T cell development and for maintaining and
restoring homeostasis of mature T cells. IL-7 is a limiting resource under normal conditions …

Signaling by the phosphoinositide 3-kinase family in immune cells

K Okkenhaug - Annual review of immunology, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Phosphoinositide 3-kinases (PI3Ks) control many important aspects of immune cell
development, differentiation, and function. Mammals have eight PI3K catalytic subunits that …

[HTML][HTML] PI3 kinase signals BCR-dependent mature B cell survival

L Srinivasan, Y Sasaki, DP Calado, B Zhang, JH Paik… - Cell, 2009 - cell.com
Previous work has shown that mature B cells depend upon survival signals delivered to the
cells by their antigen receptor (BCR). To identify the molecular nature of this survival signal …

Orchestrating B cell lymphopoiesis through interplay of IL-7 receptor and pre-B cell receptor signalling

MR Clark, M Mandal, K Ochiai, H Singh - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2014 - nature.com
The development of B cells is dependent on the sequential DNA rearrangement of
immunoglobulin loci that encode subunits of the B cell receptor. The pathway navigates a …

New insights into pre-BCR and BCR signalling with relevance to B cell malignancies

RC Rickert - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2013 - nature.com
The B cell receptor (BCR) and its precursor (pre-BCR) control B cell homeostasis,
differentiation and function. Moreover, aberrant pre-BCR and BCR signalling have a central …

Transcriptional function of E2A, Ebf1, Pax5, Ikaros and Aiolos analyzed by in vivo acute protein degradation in early B cell development

AS Fedl, H Tagoh, S Gruenbacher, Q Sun… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstracts Early B cell lymphopoiesis depends on E2A, Ebf1, Pax5 and Ikaros family
members. In the present study, we used acute protein degradation in mice to identify direct …

Immunophenotyping of acute leukemia and lymphoproliferative disorders: a consensus proposal of the European LeukemiaNet Work Package 10

MC Béné, T Nebe, P Bettelheim, B Buldini, H Bumbea… - Leukemia, 2011 - nature.com
Abstract The European LeukemiaNet (ELN), workpackage 10 (WP10) was designed to deal
with diagnosis matters using morphology and immunophenotyping. This group aimed at …