Trends in Immunology

SenSpots: when B cells age in place

CommentaryMechanisms
Follow

Abstract

Spatial multi-omics of aging human lymph nodes by Fan and colleagues reveals that immunosenescence manifests as focal B cell coalescence into 'SenSpots' within germinal centers, where concerted epigenetic, transcriptional, proteomic, and metabolic reprogramming spatially orchestrates the decline of humoral immunity.