Antibodies and B Cell Memory in Viral Immunity
A special issue of Viruses (ISSN 1999-4915). This special issue belongs to the section "Viral Immunology, Vaccines, and Antivirals".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 31498
Special Issue Editors
Interests: generation of MHC class I peptide ligands from defective ribosomal products (DRiPs) and other endogenous antigens; cell biology of specialized and non-canonical protein translation; defining mechanisms of influenza A virus evolution and antigenic variation in viral glycoproteins; understanding immunodominance in B-cell and antibody responses to influenza A virus
Interests: antibody; B cell; immunodominance; influenza; viral immunity; immune memory; humoral immunity
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The aim of this Special Issue is to present focused reviews on recent advances in understanding:
- The basic immunobiology responsible for primary and memory B cell and antibody responses to acute viral infections;
- Contributions of various immune cell types in classical germinal center response and extrafollicular response;
- The diversity and immunodominance of antiviral antibody responses;
- How antibodies exert antiviral activity in vivo;
- Direct effects and contributions of Fc expressing innate immune cells;
- How antibody selection contributes to viral evolution;
- Viral interference with B cell immunity;
- Computational modeling of Ab responses.
Dr. Jonathan Wilson Yewdell
Dr. Davide Angeletti
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- antibodies
- antibody immunodominance
- B cells
- memory B cells
- follicular dendritic cells
- follicular T helper cells
- germinal center
- humoral immunity
- influenza virus
- SARS-CoV2
- viral evolution