Nature Communications (Nov 2017)

mTOR intersects antibody-inducing signals from TACI in marginal zone B cells

  • Jordi Sintes,
  • Maurizio Gentile,
  • Shuling Zhang,
  • Yolanda Garcia-Carmona,
  • Giuliana Magri,
  • Linda Cassis,
  • Daniel Segura-Garzón,
  • Alessandra Ciociola,
  • Emilie K. Grasset,
  • Sabrina Bascones,
  • Laura Comerma,
  • Marc Pybus,
  • David Lligé,
  • Irene Puga,
  • Cindy Gutzeit,
  • Bing He,
  • Wendy DuBois,
  • Marta Crespo,
  • Julio Pascual,
  • Anna Mensa,
  • Juan Ignacio Aróstegui,
  • Manel Juan,
  • Jordi Yagüe,
  • Sergi Serrano,
  • Josep Lloreta,
  • Eric Meffre,
  • Michael Hahne,
  • Charlotte Cunningham-Rundles,
  • Beverly A. Mock,
  • Andrea Cerutti

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01602-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Marginal zone B cells differentiate into plasma cells rapidly in response to T-cell-independent antigens, but how they do so is not clear. Here the authors show TACI cooperates with TLR signalling to drive mTOR activity and subsequent class switching and plasmablast differentiation.