Antibody-mediated feedback modulates interclonal competition in the germinal center
Alexandru Barbulescu, Jana Bilanovic, Tom Langelaar, A. Katharina Teetz, Linas Urnavicius, Alvaro Hobbs, Jin-Jie Shen, Nadine H. Abrahamse, Robson Amparo de Carvalho, Luka Mesin, Cecilio L. Ferreira, Juliana Bortolatto, Gabriel D. Victora
The paper investigates how antibodies from an ongoing immune response affect interclonal competition in germinal centers, finding that antibody feedback reduces clones recognizing the same epitopes as circulating antibodies.
Immunity · Feb 24, 2026Peer-reviewedImmunology