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B Cell Development and Maturation

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Since the identification of B cells in 1965 (Cooper  et al. 1965), three has been tremendous progress in our understanding of B cell development, maturation and function. A number of B cell subpopulations, including B-1, B-2 and regulatory B cells, have been identified. B-1 cells mainly originate from the fetal liver and contain B-1a and B-1b subsets. B-2 cells are derived from the bone marrow (BM) and can be further classified into follicular B (FOB) and marginal zone B (MZB) cells. Regulatory B cells (Bregs) function to suppress immune responses, primarily by production of the anti-inflammatory cytokine IL-10. B cell tolerance is established at several checkpoints, during B cell development in the BM (central tolerance) as well as during B cell maturation and activation in the periphery (peripheral tolerance). This chapter will focus on the regulation of important processes during the development and maturation of B-1 and B-2 cells.

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Acknowledgements

We thank Luming Zhang for secretarial assistance, Fudan University Animal Facility for maintaining the mice and the members in Wang Laboratory for helpful suggestions. This work was supported by the Major Research Plan of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (91942302 to J.Y.W.), the National Key R & D Plan of the Ministry of Science and Technology (SQ2019YFE0100600 to J.Y.W.), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81571529 and 31870898 to J.Y.W), Projects of International Cooperation and Exchanges NSFC (81811540035 to J.Y.W.), a grant-in-aid for scientific research (C) from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (17K08878 to J.Y.W), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation Grant (2018M641929 to J.L.) and National Natural Science Foundation for Young Scholar (81901594 to J.L.).

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Wang, Y., Liu, J., Burrows, P.D., Wang, JY. (2020). B Cell Development and Maturation. In: Wang, JY. (eds) B Cells in Immunity and Tolerance. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 1254. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3532-1_1

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