B cell differentiation (GO:0030183)

The process in which a precursor cell type acquires the specialized features of a B cell. A B cell is a lymphocyte of B lineage with the phenotype CD19-positive and capable of B cell mediated immunity. Notes: - This term was improved by GO_REF:0000022. It was moved. 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'.

Specific

immature B cell differentiation (GO:0002327) mature B cell differentiation (GO:0002335)

General

B cell activation (GO:0042113) lymphocyte differentiation (GO:0030098)

References

gene ontology: GO:0030183