No receptor stands alone: IgG B-cell receptor intrinsic and extrinsic mechanisms contribute to antibody memory.
Acquired immunological memory is a striking phenomenon. A lethal epidemic sweeps through a naïve population, many die but those who survive are never "attacked twice - never at least fatally", as the historian Thucydides observed in 430 BCE. Antibody memory is critical for protection against many human infectious diseases and is the basis for nearly all current human vaccines. Antibody memory is encoded, in part, in isotype-switched immunoglobulin (Ig)G-expressing memory B cells that are generated in the primary response to antigen and give rise to rapid, high-affinity and high-titered antibody responses upon challenge with the same antigen. How IgG-B-cell receptors (BCRs) and antigen-induced IgG-BCR signaling contribute to memory antibody responses are not fully understood. In this review, we summarize exciting new advances that are revealing the cellular and molecular mechanisms at play in antibody memory and discuss how studies using different experimental approaches will help elucidate the complex phenomenon of B-cell memory.
1] MOE Key Laboratory of Protein Science, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China [2] Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
Yinsheng
Y
Xu
MOE Key Laboratory of Protein Science, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
Liling
L
Xu
MOE Key Laboratory of Protein Science, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
Meng
M
Zhao
MOE Key Laboratory of Protein Science, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
ChenGuang
C
Xu
MOE Key Laboratory of Protein Science, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
Yilin
Y
Fan
Laboratory of Immunogenetics, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, Rockville, MD 20852, USA.
Susan K
SK
Pierce
1] MOE Key Laboratory of Protein Science, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China [2] Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
Wanli
W
Liu
D000818:Animals; D000906:Antibodies / Q000276:immunology* / Q000378:metabolism; D001402:B-Lymphocytes / Q000166:cytology / Q000276:immunology / Q000378:metabolism; D051380:GRB2 Adaptor Protein / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D007074:Immunoglobulin G / Q000378:metabolism; D011947:Receptors, Antigen, B-Cell / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D015398:Signal Transduction
D000906:Antibodies; D051380:GRB2 Adaptor Protein; D007074:Immunoglobulin G; D011947:Receptors, Antigen, B-Cell