Nature Communications (Nov 2017)

O-GlcNAcylation is required for B cell homeostasis and antibody responses

  • Jung-Lin Wu,
  • Ming-Feng Chiang,
  • Pan-Hung Hsu,
  • Dong-Yen Tsai,
  • Kuo-Hsuan Hung,
  • Ying-Hsiu Wang,
  • Takashi Angata,
  • Kuo-I Lin

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01677-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Post-translational modification has a variety of regulatory functions for important immune molecules. Here the authors use B-cell specific knockout mice to show how O-GlcNAcylation is required for functional B cell responses and humoral immunity.