Planteome: Term Details for "germinal center B cell differentiation" (GO:0002314)

Accession: GO:0002314
Name: germinal center B cell differentiation
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: germinal center B lymphocyte differentiation, germinal center B-cell differentiation, germinal center B-lymphocyte differentiation, germinal center B cell development
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The process in which a B cell in the spleen acquires the specialized features of a germinal center B cell. Germinal center B cells are rapidly cycling B cells which have downregulated IgD expression and exhibit high levels of binding by peanut agglutinin (PNA). Source: ISBN:0781735149, GOC:jal
Comment: Note that immunologists typically use the word 'development' to refer to cells of B or T cell lineages undergoing the process that GO describes as 'cell differentiation'.
History: See term history for GO:0002314 at QuickGO
Subset: None
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subject	relation	object
germinal center B cell differentiation	is_a	mature B cell differentiation involved in immune response (GO:0002313)

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germinal center B cell differentiation