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Quantifying the shifting landscape of B cell immunodominance

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Antibodies to neutralizing epitopes on hemagglutinin exhibit reproducible dynamic immunodominance patterns over time. Early responses target largely the Cb site, followed by Sb dominance and a concomitant rise in the diversity of neutralizing-antibody specificities.

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Figure 1: Relative immunodominance of five influenza HA head domain sites targeted by neutralizing antibodies changes throughout the course of an immune response to infection of C57BL/6J mice with influenza virus A/PR/8/34.

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Dale, G., Shartouny, J. & Jacob, J. Quantifying the shifting landscape of B cell immunodominance. Nat Immunol 18, 367–368 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/ni.3695

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