Bonnie Dittel (Blood Research Institute, Milwaukee), Olga Rojas (University of Toronto) and Journal of Molecular Biology are organizing a special issue focused on “B cell regulatory phenotypes and function”.
It is now well accepted that B cells contribute to negative regulation of inflammation in a variety of diseases. While B cell production of IL-10 as a regulatory mechanism has dominated the literature only recently have definitive B cell phenotypes been identified that regulate through that mechanism. Thus a primary goal of this special issue is to move IL-10 as a functional definition to one associated with specific B cell subsets. A second major goal is to highlight the phenotypes and mechanisms of action of IL-10-independent B cell regulation.
The editors would like to invite the researchers working in the field to join this special collection via a research article. The submissions date is 1 April 2020.
The research article should be in line with JMB’s scope: a molecular mechanistic study having a biological or disease relevance and contributing to the understanding of a significant biological or biochemical mechanism. The work should be of interest to a broad biologically oriented readership of JMB.