Endolysosomal vesicles at the center of B cell activation




Hämälistö, Saara; Batalla, Valle del Felipe; Yuseff Isabel, María; Mattila, Pieta

PublisherRockefeller University Press

2024

Journal of Cell Biology

e202307047

223

3

0021-9525

1540-8140

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.202307047

https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.202307047

https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/380834693



The endolysosomal system specializes in degrading cellular components and is crucial to maintaining homeostasis and adapting rapidly to metabolic and environmental cues. Cells of the immune system exploit this network to process antigens or promote cell death by secreting lysosome-related vesicles. In B lymphocytes, lysosomes are harnessed to facilitate the extraction of antigens and to promote their processing into peptides for presentation to T cells, critical steps to mount protective high-affinity antibody responses. Intriguingly, lysosomal vesicles are now considered important signaling units within cells and also display secretory functions by releasing their content to the extracellular space. In this review, we focus on how B cells use pathways involved in the intracellular trafficking, secretion, and function of endolysosomes to promote adaptive immune responses. A basic understanding of such mechanisms poses an interesting frontier for the development of therapeutic strategies in the context of cancer and autoimmune diseases.


This work was supported by the Research Council of Finland (grant ID 339810 to P.K. Mattila; 355957 to S. Hämälistö; and 337530 and 357910 to InFLAMES flagship), the Chilean National Agency for Research and Development (ANID) through Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico funding (grant ID: 1221128 to M.I. Yuseff and the Ph.D. national Scholarship ID 21191062 to F. Del Valle Batalla) as well as the Sigrid Jusélius (to P.K. Mattila) and Finnish Cultural foundations (to S. Hämälistö).


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