Tertiary Lymphoid Structures Sustain Cutaneous B cell Activity in Hidradenitis Suppurativa.
Margaret M LoweJarish N CohenMadison I MossSean ClancyJames AdlerAshley YatesHaley B NaikMariela PauliIan TaylorAustin McKayHobart HarrisEsther KimScott L HansenMichael D RosenblumJoshua M MoreauPublished in: bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology (2023)
Our data definitively demonstrate the presence of TLS in lesional HS skin and point to ongoing cutaneous B cell maturation through class switch recombination and affinity maturation during disease progression in this inflamed non-lymphoid tissue.