Gene expression signatures of human plasma cells isolated from different territories
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ABSTRACT: In vivo antigen (Ag)-induced differentiation of B lymphocytes into plasma cells (PCs) takes place in extra-follicular foci and germinal centers of the secondary lymphoid organs (SLOs). Most of these SLO PCs are short-living and only relatively few PCs, characterized by secreting high-affinity antibodies (Ab), travel through the circulation and finally home in specialized survival niches of the bone marrow (BM) and, at a lesser extent, in the SLOs, where they become long-living Ab-secreting PCs. We have employed whole genome microarray expression profiling as a discovery platform to identify genes with the potential to distinguish between human circulating Ag-induced PCs in comparison with tonsil and BM PCs distinctively regulate genes involved in cell proliferation.
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
PROVIDER: GSE59697 | GEO | 2015/01/05
SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PRJNA255978
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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