Maria Pia Holgado, Samuel Origlio, Lucas Bertoia, Myriam Moussa, Apurwa Trivedi, Frederic Fiore, Ana Zarubica, Emma Slack, Michelle A. Linterman, Michel Cogné, Claude Gregoire, Mauro Gaya
{"title":"Mucosal tissue cues shape B cell memory through the IgA BCR","authors":"Maria Pia Holgado, Samuel Origlio, Lucas Bertoia, Myriam Moussa, Apurwa Trivedi, Frederic Fiore, Ana Zarubica, Emma Slack, Michelle A. Linterman, Michel Cogné, Claude Gregoire, Mauro Gaya","doi":"10.1126/sciimmunol.adv1149","DOIUrl":"10.1126/sciimmunol.adv1149","url":null,"abstract":"<div >B cells generate plasma cells (PCs) and memory B cells (MBCs) to combat recurrent pathogens. B cell receptor (BCR) affinity dictates fate decisions in response to model antigens, but the factors regulating B cell fate during infection remain unknown. Here, we used respiratory and gastrointestinal infection models to study B cell selection across barrier tissues in mice. Memory selection was governed by tissue-specific cues: Selection in the lung was skewed toward MBCs, whereas the gut favored PC entry, even in response to the same pathogen. Divergence was linked to differential BCR isotype usage across barrier tissues rather than differential affinity maturation. In the gut, the commensal-induced TGF-β–rich milieu promoted class-switching to IgA, which skewed selection toward PCs, a process that was counteracted by the IgA cytosolic tail domain. Thus, mucosal B cell selection integrates tissue-specific cues by relying on BCR isotype usage, with implications for nasal and oral vaccine development.</div>","PeriodicalId":21734,"journal":{"name":"Science Immunology","volume":"11 121","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.4,"publicationDate":"2026-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.science.org/doi/reader/10.1126/sciimmunol.adv1149","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148460183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yumin Kim, In Kang, Byeong Hoon Kang, Won Hyung Park, Chae Won Kim, Hyun-Jin Kim, Jeongwoo La, Myoung Seung Kwon, Sang Hee Park, Seo Hyeon Im, Hyeon Cheol Kim, Keun Bon Ku, Minji Kim, Ji Eun Oh, Heung Kyu Lee
{"title":"The efficacy of immunotherapy in glioma requires distal B cell responses in tumor-draining lymph nodes","authors":"Yumin Kim, In Kang, Byeong Hoon Kang, Won Hyung Park, Chae Won Kim, Hyun-Jin Kim, Jeongwoo La, Myoung Seung Kwon, Sang Hee Park, Seo Hyeon Im, Hyeon Cheol Kim, Keun Bon Ku, Minji Kim, Ji Eun Oh, Heung Kyu Lee","doi":"10.1126/sciimmunol.adz2494","DOIUrl":"10.1126/sciimmunol.adz2494","url":null,"abstract":"<div >Humoral immunity, mediated by B cells that mature in germinal centers in lymph nodes (LNs), is essential for adaptive immune responses, but its role in antitumor immunity and responses to immunotherapy remain unclear. Here, we show that activation of B cells in tumor-draining deep cervical LNs (dcLNs) is necessary for the efficacy of CTLA-4 (cytotoxic T lymphocyte–associated protein 4) immune checkpoint blockade in glioma in vivo. Anti–CTLA-4 therapy enhanced T follicular helper cell (T<sub>FH</sub> cell) expansion in dcLNs, leading to germinal center B cell responses, immunoglobulin G (IgG) class switching, and the generation of glioma-reactive antibodies. Glioma-bearing mice lacking antibody-secreting cells did not benefit from CTLA-4 blockade. Distally secreted IgG accumulated in the tumor microenvironment and promoted glioma cell phagocytosis in vivo. These findings define a B cell–dependent mechanism underlying CTLA-4–mediated control of glioma and provide a conceptual framework for future therapeutic strategies in tumor.</div>","PeriodicalId":21734,"journal":{"name":"Science Immunology","volume":"11 121","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.4,"publicationDate":"2026-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148414712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Parul Singh, Luopin Wang, Pavitra Ramdas, Shyaman M. Jayasundara, Gaelle Le Friec, Natalia Kunz, Prakriti Mudvari, Erin E. West, Ayden Case, Nicolas S. Merle, Jack A. Bibby, Henrik Hasle, Eli A. Boritz, Majid Kazemian, Claudia Kemper
{"title":"Sp1 links CD46 to CD4 T cell metabolic fitness, survival, and retroviral control","authors":"Parul Singh, Luopin Wang, Pavitra Ramdas, Shyaman M. Jayasundara, Gaelle Le Friec, Natalia Kunz, Prakriti Mudvari, Erin E. West, Ayden Case, Nicolas S. Merle, Jack A. Bibby, Henrik Hasle, Eli A. Boritz, Majid Kazemian, Claudia Kemper","doi":"10.1126/sciimmunol.aeb5857","DOIUrl":"10.1126/sciimmunol.aeb5857","url":null,"abstract":"<div >CD46, a human-specific complement receptor, regulates gene programs essential for T helper 1 (T<sub>H</sub>1) cell differentiation, yet how it exerts direct transcriptional control remains unclear. We show that the CD46 signaling domain cytoplasmic tail 1 (CYT-1) engages the transcription factor Sp1 in human CD4 T cells to dynamically modulate Sp1-DNA interactions. Beyond promoting T<sub>H</sub>1 cell induction, CD46-Sp1–controlled programs support naive CD4 T cell survival by maintaining nutrient transporter expression and suppressing the intrinsic caspase 9–caspase 3 apoptotic pathway. The CD46-Sp1 axis also restrains HIV transcription in infected CD4 T cells in vitro. Disruption of CYT-1–Sp1–regulated programs identifies T cells from individuals with HIV who exhibit incomplete viral suppression during antiretroviral therapy. Together, these findings define a human-specific transcriptional mechanism linking complement signaling to metabolic adaptation, apoptosis regulation, and antiviral defense, highlighting an unexpected role for CD46 in coordinating T cell homeostasis and host protection.</div>","PeriodicalId":21734,"journal":{"name":"Science Immunology","volume":"11 121","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.4,"publicationDate":"2026-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148415178","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A breath of fresh AIR in novel CAR T cell design","authors":"Bin-Bin Schell, Laura Solt","doi":"10.1126/sciimmunol.aej9802","DOIUrl":"10.1126/sciimmunol.aej9802","url":null,"abstract":"<div >Insertion of a compact motif into CARs enables activation-induced receptor shedding, thereby enhancing CAR T cell potency.</div>","PeriodicalId":21734,"journal":{"name":"Science Immunology","volume":"11 121","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":16.4,"publicationDate":"2026-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148379750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evolution and development of innate immune memory","authors":"Maziar Divangahi, Eva Kaufmann","doi":"10.1126/sciimmunol.aeb7976","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1126/sciimmunol.aeb7976","url":null,"abstract":"Innate immune memory (trained immunity) is mediated by epigenetic and metabolic reprogramming of innate immune cells and hematopoietic progenitors, enabling altered responses to subsequent challenges. Mechanistically conserved across eukaryotes, trained immunity in mammals operates as a dynamically regulated, life-phase–specific system. The demands and constraints on innate immune memory shift across the life span: from tolerogenic programming and maternal immune transfer in fetal and neonatal life, through establishment of innate set points during early-life microbial colonization, to full integration of central and peripheral training with adaptive immunity in adulthood. Aging disrupts this integration, producing simultaneous immunosenescence and inflammaging, potentially through cumulative maladaptive training at the hematopoietic stem cell level. In this Review, we examine how the exposome continuously shapes innate immune trajectories across life and discuss implications for trained immunity–based strategies to limit maladaptive inflammation.","PeriodicalId":21734,"journal":{"name":"Science Immunology","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":24.8,"publicationDate":"2026-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148379712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Leoma Bere, Christiana Fogg, Hannah Isles, Claire Olingy, Seth Thomas Scanlon
{"title":"Memories that endure.","authors":"Leoma Bere, Christiana Fogg, Hannah Isles, Claire Olingy, Seth Thomas Scanlon","doi":"10.1126/sciimmunol.aej2527","DOIUrl":"10.1126/sciimmunol.aej2527","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Multilayered immune memory contributes to lifelong pathogen protection and health.</p>","PeriodicalId":21734,"journal":{"name":"Science Immunology","volume":"11 121","pages":"eaej2527"},"PeriodicalIF":16.4,"publicationDate":"2026-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148382666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Stephen J. Turner, Daniel Thiele, Nicole L. La Gruta
{"title":"The evolving biology of T cell memory: A dynamic continuum of function and persistence","authors":"Stephen J. Turner, Daniel Thiele, Nicole L. La Gruta","doi":"10.1126/sciimmunol.aeh4437","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1126/sciimmunol.aeh4437","url":null,"abstract":"Immunological memory underpins long-term protection and vaccination. Although early work established the durability and recall capacity of memory T cells, understanding of CD8 T cell memory generation, maintenance, and plasticity has advanced substantially over recent decades. Initial models viewed memory as an outcome of peak effector responses and were defined mainly by persistence. Successive waves of technological innovation, from MHC tetramers and genetic lineage-tracing approaches to single-cell and epigenomic profiling and modern high-throughput gene-perturbation screens, have reshaped this view. These approaches reveal memory as a dynamic continuum of cellular states that is actively maintained, tissue-adapted, and epigenetically programmed. CD8 T cell memory is now understood as a flexible and regulated fate rather than a static end point. In this Review, we outline the historical development of the field, highlight how emerging technologies have refined core concepts, and present a modern framework in which memory is an actively enforced yet adaptable property of the CD8 T cell lineage.","PeriodicalId":21734,"journal":{"name":"Science Immunology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":24.8,"publicationDate":"2026-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148379662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Celebrating a decade of progress at Science Immunology.","authors":"Seth Thomas Scanlon","doi":"10.1126/sciimmunol.aej2535","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1126/sciimmunol.aej2535","url":null,"abstract":"Science Immunology celebrates its first 10 years and looks ahead.","PeriodicalId":21734,"journal":{"name":"Science Immunology","volume":"36 1","pages":"eaej2535"},"PeriodicalIF":24.8,"publicationDate":"2026-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148379751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Molecular and tissue regulation of memory B cells","authors":"Mauro Gaya, Kim L. Good-Jacobson","doi":"10.1126/sciimmunol.aef3415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1126/sciimmunol.aef3415","url":null,"abstract":"Memory B cells underpin the capacity of the immune system to confer durable protective immunity by mounting rapid and enhanced secondary antibody responses. Hence, they are central to vaccine efficacy and to limiting long-term tissue damage after reinfection. Despite their importance, the cellular origins, molecular programs, and tissue-specific specialization of memory B cells remain incompletely understood. Here, we review recent advances in memory B cell development and regulation, with a particular focus on tissue-resident memory B cells. We discuss how memory B cells arise from distinct developmental precursors as well as the extrinsic regulators and molecular programs that govern memory B cell identity and function. We further examine emerging evidence for tissue-resident memory B cell populations in the respiratory airways and their implications for mucosal vaccination strategies against airborne pathogens. Together, these findings provide a framework for leveraging memory B cell biology in clinical applications.","PeriodicalId":21734,"journal":{"name":"Science Immunology","volume":"78 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":24.8,"publicationDate":"2026-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148379711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}