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Cutler AJ, Cornall RJ, Ferry H, Manderson AP, Botto M, Walport MJ. Intact B cell tolerance in the absence of the first component of the classical complement pathway. Eur J Immunol 2001; 31:2087-93. [PMID: 11449362 DOI: 10.1002/1521-4141(200107)31:7<2087::aid-immu2087>3.0.co;2-c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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A critical role for complement in the regulation of self tolerance has been proposed to explain the strong association between complement deficiency and autoimmunity. To elucidate the role of the classical pathway of complement in the maintenance of B cell tolerance, C1q-deficient (C1qa-/-) mice were bred with anti-hen egg lysozyme (HEL) immunoglobulin (Ig(HEL)) and soluble HEL (sHEL) transgenic mice. B cell tolerance was intact in C1qa-/- mice. In vivo, double-transgenic (Ig(HEL)/sHEL) C1qa-/- and wild-type control mice down-regulated surface immunoglobulin expression on splenocytes and equivalent numbers of HEL-binding B cells accumulated in the periphery. Maturation of B cells, evidenced by CD21 expression, was retarded to the same extent and at a similar time point. The frequency of anti-HEL-producing plasma cells and serum levels of anti-HEL immunoglobulin were comparably reduced in control and C1qa-/- double-transgenic mice compared to control Ig(HEL) and C1qa-/- Ig(HEL) mice. Furthermore, splenocytes from double-transgenic C1qa-/- or wild-type mice did not modulate intracellular calcium levels after stimulation with HEL in vitro. These data demonstrate that a stable form of B cell anergy persists in the periphery of C1qa-/- mice, suggesting that activation of the classical pathway by C1q is not essential for the maintenance of B cell tolerance in this transgenic model.
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- A J Cutler
- Rheumatology Section, Division of Medicine, Imperial College School of Medicine, Hammersmith Campus, Du Cane Road, London, GB, UK
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Antigen delivers both immunogenic and tolerogenic signals to lymphocytes. The outcome of antigen exposure represents a complex integration of the timing of antigen binding with signals from many other immunogenic and tolerogenic costimulatory pathways. A road map of these signalling pathways is only beginning to be charted, revealing the mechansim of action and limitations of current immunotherapeutic agents and the points of attack for new agents. Ciclosporin and tacrolimus interfere with tolerogenic signals from antigen in addition to blocking immunogenic signals, thus preventing active establishment of tolerance. Corticosteroids inhibit a key immunogenic pathway, NFkappaB, and more specific inhibitors of this pathway may allow tolerance to be actively established while immune responses are blocked. New experimental therapies aim to mimic tolerogenic antigen signals by chronically stimulating antigen receptors with antigen or antibodies to the receptor, or aim to block costimulatory pathways involving CD40 ligand, B7, or interleukin 2. Obtaining the desired response with these strategies is unpredictable because many of these signals have both tolerogenic and immunogenic roles. The cause of autoimune diseases has been determined for several rare monogenic disorders, revealing inherited deficiencies in tolerogenic costimulatory pathways such as FAS. Common autoimmune disorders may have a biochemically related pathogenesis.
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- C C Goodnow
- Australian Cancer Research Foundation, Genetics Laboratory, Medical Genome Centre, John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
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Velazquez C, DiPaolo R, Unanue ER. Quantitation of lysozyme peptides bound to class II MHC molecules indicates very large differences in levels of presentation. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2001; 166:5488-94. [PMID: 11313387 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.166.9.5488] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Knowing the abundance of peptides presented by MHC molecules is a crucial aspect for understanding T cell activation and tolerance. In this report we determined the relative abundance of four distinct peptide families after the processing of the model Ag hen egg-white lysozyme. The development of a sensitive immunochemical approach reported here made it possible to directly quantitate the abundance of these four epitopes presented by APCs, both in vitro and in vivo. We observed a wide range of presentation among these four different epitopes presented on the surface of APCs, with 250-fold differences or more between the most abundant epitope (48-63) and the least abundant epitopes. Importantly, we observe similar ratios of presentation from APCs in vitro as well as from APCs from the spleens and thymi of hen egg-white lysozyme transgenic mice. We discuss the relationship between the amount of peptide presented and their binding to I-A(k) molecules, immunogenicity, and tolerogenicity.
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- C Velazquez
- Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
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Kretz-Rommel A, Rubin RL. Early cellular events in systemic autoimmunity driven by chromatin-reactive T cells. Cell Immunol 2001; 208:125-36. [PMID: 11333145 DOI: 10.1006/cimm.2001.1774] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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In vivo exposure of the thymus of normal mice to procainamide-hydroxylamine, a lupus-inducing drug, causes development of chromatin-reactive T cells. Autoantibodies subsequently appear, but their origin and significance are unknown. The current studies were undertaken to determine the specificities of B cells that respond to chromatin-reactive T cells at the initiation of this autoimmune process. Three days after adoptive transfer of 6 x 10(6) chromatin-reactive T cells, B cells with the capacity to secrete IgM anti-chromatin antibodies were detected in 1/10(6) splenocytes, and these became 10- to 50-fold more numerous if either the donor T cells or the recipient had defective Fas due to the lpr allele. Five days later these mice developed IgG anti-chromatin-secreting B cells at a precursor frequency of 3-6 x 10(-5). B cells with dDNA-binding activity isolated from mice primed in vivo to a complex of methylated pigeon cytochrome c and dDNA could stimulate naive, cytochrome c-reactive T cells in vitro, demonstrating that B cells can internalize dDNA-bound proteins through their dDNA immunoblobulin receptor and can functionally present a T cell epitope. However, no capacity of chromatin for binding anti-dDNA antibodies was detected, and IgM dDNA-specific B cells did not expand when challenged with chromatin-reactive T cells in vivo. The rapid and robust expansion of anti-chromatin-secreting B cells indicates that the normal immune repertoire includes nontolerant autoreactive B cells that respond to strong T cell drive and are readily manifested if Fas-mediated activation-induced cell death is inhibited.
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- A Kretz-Rommel
- Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California, 92121, USA
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Rojas M, Hulbert C, Thomas JW. Anergy and not clonal ignorance determines the fate of B cells that recognize a physiological autoantigen. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2001; 166:3194-200. [PMID: 11207272 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.166.5.3194] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Autoantibodies to insulin arise spontaneously in the insulin autoimmune syndrome and in type I diabetes. In addition, administration of insulin to individuals without autoimmune disease routinely results in Abs that bind autologous hormone. These observations and findings in transgenic models of tolerance led to an inference that physiological levels of hormones and growth factors, such as insulin, are not sufficient to induce tolerance in B cells, a state termed clonal ignorance. In contrast, we have discovered that virtually all conventional B cells expressing a low affinity anti-insulin transgene interact with endogenous insulin and are effectively silenced for Ig production and for T cell-dependent immune responses. A fraction of transgenic B cells escapes silencing and functions autonomously to produce insulin Abs that may lower fasting blood sugars similar to an insulin autoimmune syndrome. These B cells have characteristics of a B1-like subset and are depleted by hypotonic peritoneal lysis. These findings question the concept of clonal ignorance and show that physiological concentrations of Ag may effectively silence conventional B cells even when the affinity for autoantigen is low. Self-reactivity may arise in the repertoire because of compartmental differences that govern the fate of B cells and not as a result of true clonal ignorance.
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- M Rojas
- Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37232, USA
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Koenig-Marrony S, Soulas P, Julien S, Knapp AM, Garaud JC, Martin T, Pasquali JL. Natural autoreactive B cells in transgenic mice reproduce an apparent paradox to the clonal tolerance theory. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2001; 166:1463-70. [PMID: 11160185 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.166.3.1463] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Naturally occurring autoreactive B cells are thought to be physically eliminated or rendered functionally silent through different mechanisms of tolerance. However, multireactive low affinity natural autoantibody-producing B cells seem to escape these mechanisms in normal adults and could constitute the B cell pool from which pathological autoantibodies can emerge. To analyze this apparent paradox to the clonal tolerance theory, we have made two transgenic mouse lines (mu(k), mudelta(k)) producing a natural low affinity multireactive human autoantibody. These models enable us to test both the central tolerance mechanisms (reactivity with single-stranded DNA) and the peripheral tolerance mechanisms after Ag administration. Not only are the multireactive B cells not deleted in the bone marrow, they circulate and remain in the periphery even after the prolonged administration of Ag, the presence of membrane IgD increasing the number of mature autoreactive B cells. Self-reactive B cells are shown to be autoantigen ignorant both in vivo and in vitro, but they are not anergic because they can be easily activated through both B cell receptor-dependent and -independent pathways. Thus, these mouse lines reproduce an apparent paradox to the clonal tolerance theory meriting further investigation of the biological significance of this phenomenon.
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- S Koenig-Marrony
- Laboratoire d'immunopathologie, Institut d'Hémato-Immunologie, Hôpital Civil, Strasbourg, France
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Aarvak T, Natvig JB. Cell-cell interactions in synovitis: antigen presenting cells and T cell interaction in rheumatoid arthritis. ARTHRITIS RESEARCH 2001; 3:13-7. [PMID: 11178123 PMCID: PMC128879 DOI: 10.1186/ar135] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2000] [Revised: 09/20/2000] [Accepted: 09/20/2000] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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The synovial tissue in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients is enriched with mature antigen presenting cells (APCs) and many T lymphocytes. Interactions between APCs and T cells are essential for the initiation and amplification of T-cell-dependent immune responses, and may therefore play an important role in the chronic inflammatory processes in the synovium. The nature of the antigen(s) involved in RA still remains elusive. However, interactions and signaling through the costimulatory molecules CD28-CD80/86 and CD40-CD40L are critical during APC-T cell interaction for optimal cell activation. This review discusses how such costimulatory signals can be involved in the initiation and amplification of the inflammatory reactions in the synovium. Blocking of the signaling pathways involved in APC-T cell interactions might provide a specific immuno-therapeutic approach for the treatment of RA.
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- T Aarvak
- Institute of Immunology, Laboratory of Rheumatology Research, The National Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
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Zinkernagel RM, LaMarre A, Ciurea A, Hunziker L, Ochsenbein AF, McCoy KD, Fehr T, Bachmann MF, Kalinke U, Hengartner H. Neutralizing antiviral antibody responses. Adv Immunol 2001; 79:1-53. [PMID: 11680006 PMCID: PMC7130890 DOI: 10.1016/s0065-2776(01)79001-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Neutralizing antibodies are evolutionarily important effectors of immunity against viruses. Their evaluation has revealed a number of basic insights into specificity, rules of reactivity (tolerance), and memory—namely, (1) Specificity of neutralizing antibodies is defined by their capacity to distinguish between virus serotypes; (2) B cell reactivity is determined by antigen structure, concentration, and time of availability in secondary lymphoid organs; and (3) B cell memory is provided by elevated protective antibody titers in serum that are depending on antigen stimulation. These perhaps slightly overstated rules are simple, correlate with in vivo evidence as well as clinical observations, and appear to largely demystify many speculations about antibodies and B cell physiology. The chapter also considers successful vaccines and compares them with those infectious diseases where efficient protective vaccines are lacking, it is striking to note that all successful vaccines induce high levels of neutralizing antibodies (nAbs) that are both necessary and sufficient to protect the host from disease. Successful vaccination against infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, leprosy, or HIV would require induction of additional long-lasting T cell responses to control infection.
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- R M Zinkernagel
- Institute of Experimental Immunology, Department of Pathology, University Hospital, CH-8091 Zürich, Switzerland
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BACKGROUND ABO incompatibility is a common cause for mild hemolysis in the newborn, ranging from 1 in 30 to 1 in 150 births. Fortunately, hemolysis requiring transfusion is rare and restricted to blood group O mothers, because blood group A and B individuals make poor IgG anti-B and anti-A responses. No human IgG ABO antibody sequences have been reported, in part because of the difficulty in obtaining human IgG hybridomas. Phage-display technology may be able to circumvent these difficulties, but its application to carbohydrate antigens is poorly studied. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS A human IgG1 phage-display Fab library was constructed from splenocytes derived from a nonhyperimmunized blood group O person, and panned against group B RBCs. RESULTS After five rounds of panning, essentially all phage bound to group B RBCs. Nucleotide sequence analysis of a single monoclonal IgG1lambda phage, FB5.7, revealed a highly mutated VH4 family heavy chain, and a nearly germline VL7 family lambda light chain. The Fab agglutinated group B, but not group A, random-donor RBCs. However, group B ELISA reactivity could be inhibited by soluble B-trisaccharide, soluble A-trisaccharide, galactose, and N-acetyl galactosamine. Similarly, galactose and N-acetyl galactosamine were able to inhibit group B RBC agglutination. CONCLUSION FB5.7 is the first human IgG ABO MoAb described. Alhough it behaves serologically like a group B-specific antibody, it demonstrates interaction with both the A and B epitopes. Phage-display technology can be used to better define the relationship between antibody genotype and phenotype in anti-carbohydrate responses in nonhyperimmunized hosts, and thus to improve our understanding of the composition of the antibody repertoire.
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- T Y Chang
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA
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Metzler DE, Metzler CM, Sauke DJ. Biochemical Defense Mechanisms. Biochemistry 2001. [DOI: 10.1016/b978-012492543-4/50034-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Reed AJ, Riley MP, Caton AJ. Virus-induced maturation and activation of autoreactive memory B cells. J Exp Med 2000; 192:1763-74. [PMID: 11120773 PMCID: PMC2213501 DOI: 10.1084/jem.192.12.1763] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2000] [Accepted: 10/13/2000] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
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We have examined B cell populations that participate in distinct phases of the immune response to the influenza virus A/PR/8/34 hemagglutinin (HA) for their susceptibility to negative selection in mice that express the HA as a neo-self-antigen (HA104 mice). We demonstrated previously that specificity for the neo-self-HA causes a population of immunoglobulin G antibody-secreting cells, which dominate the primary response to virus immunization in BALB/c mice, to be negatively selected in HA104 mice. We find here that in contrast to these primary response B cells, HA-specific memory response B cells developed equivalently in HA104 and nontransgenic (BALB/c) mice. Indeed, there was no indication that HA-specific B cells were negatively selected during memory formation in influenza virus-immunized HA104 mice, even though the neo-self-HA can be recognized by memory B cells. Furthermore, HA-specific autoantibodies were induced in the absence of virus immunization by mating HA104 mice with mice transgenic for a CD4(+) HA-specific T cell receptor. These findings indicate that specificity for a self-antigen does not prevent the maturation of autoreactive B cells in the germinal center pathway. Rather, the availability of CD4(+) T cell help may play a crucial role in regulating autoantibody responses to the HA in HA104 mice.
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- Amy J. Reed
- From The Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
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Mårtensson IL, Ceredig R. Review article: role of the surrogate light chain and the pre-B-cell receptor in mouse B-cell development. Immunology 2000; 101:435-41. [PMID: 11122446 PMCID: PMC2327112 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2567.2000.00151.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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- I L Mårtensson
- Developmental Immunology, The Babraham Institute, Babraham, Cambridge, UK
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Kyburz D, Carson DA, Corr M. The role of CD40 ligand and tumor necrosis factor alpha signaling in the transgenic K/BxN mouse model of rheumatoid arthritis. ARTHRITIS AND RHEUMATISM 2000; 43:2571-7. [PMID: 11083282 DOI: 10.1002/1529-0131(200011)43:11<2571::aid-anr26>3.0.co;2-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Spontaneous arthritis in the KRN transgenic mouse (K/BxN) model is due to the autoreactivity of the transgenic T cell receptor and subsequent induction of autoantibodies directed against glucose-6-phosphate isomerase (G6PI). This study sought to analyze the potential of anti-CD40 ligand (anti-CD40L) and anti-tumor necrosis factor alpha (anti-TNFalpha) antibodies in preventing and treating arthritis in this murine model. METHODS Groups of K/BxN mice were injected with anti-CD40L and anti-TNFalpha antibodies during various stages of arthritis. Disease was assessed by clinical scoring, measurements of paw swelling, and histology. The results were correlated with the levels of autoantibodies in the serum, as assessed by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. RESULTS Anti-CD40L antibody treatment was able to diminish significantly the arthritis development in K/BxN mice when given a week before the onset of clinically apparent disease. However, no effect on disease was seen when the antibodies were administered after clinical onset. Surprisingly, neutralizing anti-TNFalpha antibodies were unable to prevent arthritis in K/BxN mice. The success of antibody treatment in preventing disease correlated with low levels of anti-G6PI antibodies in the serum. CONCLUSION These results suggest that anti-CD40L treatment can prevent arthritis development in a model of immunoglobulin-mediated arthritis, but anti-TNFalpha treatment cannot. The unsuccessful treatment of established disease was possibly due to the continued presence of autoreactive antibodies in the arthritic mice.
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- D Kyburz
- University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093-0663, USA
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One of the fundamental aims of structural biology is the identification of high-affinity ligands for arbitrary receptors. The maturation of the antibody repertoire elegantly and robustly solves this problem through an evolutionary mechanism comprising repeated cycles of mutation and preferential replication. To understand better the limitations and biases of this process, we developed an interpretation of antibody maturation within the framework of sequence space and fitness landscapes. Several well-described phenomena can be directly derived from this framework, and new predictions can be made. Ultimately, this reconceptualization of the clonal selection process suggests a quantitative, testable model of immunogenicity.
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- T Y Chang
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Rochester, NY 14642, USA.
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Meffre E, Davis E, Schiff C, Cunningham-Rundles C, Ivashkiv LB, Staudt LM, Young JW, Nussenzweig MC. Circulating human B cells that express surrogate light chains and edited receptors. Nat Immunol 2000; 1:207-13. [PMID: 10973277 DOI: 10.1038/79739] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Immunoglobulin gene recombination can result in the assembly of self-reactive antibodies. Deletion, anergy or receptor editing normally silence B cells that produce these autoantibodies. Receptor editing is highly efficient in mouse B cells that carry pre-recombined autoantibody transgenes or gene "knock-ins". However, it has been difficult to identify cells that have edited receptors in unmanipulated mice and humans. To try to identify such cells we isolated and characterized B cells that coexpress surrogate and conventional light chains (V-preB+L+) from the blood of normal human donors. V-preB+L+ B cells express RAG mRNA, display an unusual heavy and light chain antibody repertoire consistent with antiself reactivity, and show evidence of receptor editing. These cells accumulate in the joints of patients with rheumatoid arthritis, consistent with a role for V-preB+L+ B cells and receptor editing in autoimmune disease.
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- E Meffre
- Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, Rockefeller University, 1230 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021, USA
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Fearon DT, Carroll MC. Regulation of B lymphocyte responses to foreign and self-antigens by the CD19/CD21 complex. Annu Rev Immunol 2000; 18:393-422. [PMID: 10837064 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.immunol.18.1.393] [Citation(s) in RCA: 359] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The membrane protein complex CD19/CD21 couples the innate immune recognition of microbial antigens by the complement system to the activation of B cells. CD21 binds the C3d fragment of activated C3 that becomes covalently attached to targets of complement activation, and CD19 co-stimulates signaling through the antigen receptor, membrane immunoglobulin. CD21 is also expressed by follicular dendritic cells and mediates the long-term retention of antigen that is required for the maintenance of memory B cells. Understanding of the biology of this receptor complex has been enriched by analyses of genetically modified mice; these analyses have uncovered roles not only in positive responses to foreign antigens, but also in the development of tolerance to self-antigens. Studies of signal transduction have begun to determine the basis for the coreceptor activities of CD19. The integration of innate and adaptive immune recognition at this molecular site on the B cell guides the appropriate selection of antigen by adaptive immunity and emphasizes the importance of this coreceptor complex.
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- D T Fearon
- Wellcome Trust Immunology Unit, Department of Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.
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Two models to explain patterns of immune reactivity of T and B cells are compared: the two-signal theories and the antigen-localization-dose-time and structure concept. The two-signal theory states that signal 1 (= antigen alone signalling via specific T or B cell receptor) turns T and B cells off, signal 1 plus co-stimulatory signals 2 induces them. Our model employs immuno-reactivity antigen parameters, i.e. localization-dose-time kinetics and structure of antigen in determining T and B cell reactivity. Both concepts have in common that immune reactivity is somatically learned and not germline defined and that there is nothing unique to the antigenic structure itself that could distinguish self from nonself antigens. While two-signal theories base positive versus negative reactivity on the presence or absence of co-stimulatory signals anywhere in the body, our alternative model proposes that besides antigen structure, dose and time it is the localization of antigen--vis-à-vis the organized lymphoid tissues--that determines reactivity patterns as follows. First, antigen that does not reach secondary lymphoid organs in minimum doses or for sufficiently long time periods, is immunologically ignored. Second, antigen that either usually exists in the lymphoid system or reaches it and persists in excessive amounts for long periods deletes T cells. Third, antigen that is transported to secondary lymphoid organs in sufficient (but not excessive) amounts and for a sufficient time period (but does not persist) induces an effective immune response. B cell responses are also induced exclusively in lymphoid tissues. Short-term B cell responses are T independent against antigens linked to bacterial lipopolysaccharides or against highly repetitive and strictly ordered antigens; thus, B cells are pattern recognizers (monomeric antigens usually accessible to B cells are in general likely to be self-antigens. Strictly ordered repetitive antigens are virtually by definition infectious agents). Long-term (switched) B cell responses against mono- and polymorphic antigens are T cell dependent regulated by time dose and localization of antigen.
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- R M Zinkernagel
- Institute of Experimental Immunology, Department of Pathology, University Hospital, Schmelzbergstrasse 12, Zurich, CH 8091, Switzerland
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Monroe JG. Balancing signals for negative selection and activation of developing B lymphocytes. Clin Immunol 2000; 95:S8-13. [PMID: 10729232 DOI: 10.1006/clim.1999.4817] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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- J G Monroe
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Room 311 BRBII/III, 421 Curie Boulevard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
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Morris SC, Moroldo M, Giannini EH, Orekhova T, Finkelman FD. In vivo survival of autoreactive B cells: characterization of long-lived B cells. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2000; 164:3035-46. [PMID: 10706692 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.164.6.3035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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To determine the effects of chronic Ag stimulation on B cell survival and phenotype, we compared survival and surface markers of hen egg lysozyme (HEL)-specific B cells in Ig transgenic (Tgn) mice, which lack HEL, and in HEL-Ig transgenic mice, which express soluble HEL. Serum HEL levels were maximized in HEL-Ig Tgn mice by feeding them zinc, which activates the metallothionein promoter that regulates HEL expression. B cell age was characterized by expression of heat-stable Ag, and B220 and B cell survival was studied by evaluating changes in B cell number when lymphopoiesis was suppressed with anti-IL-7 mAb and by identifying newly generated B cells through 5-bromo-2'-deoxyuridine incorporation. Our observations show that the mean B cell life span is considerably reduced in HEL-Ig Tgn compared with Ig Tgn mice, but also demonstrate that some HEL-Ig Tgn B cells survive to maturity. Some of these surviving B cells have undergone receptor editing (substitution of an endogenous Ig light chain for the transgenic Ig light chain), so that their ability to bind HEL is decreased or absent. Surviving HEL-Ig Tgn B cells that retain HEL specificity express decreased mIgD and little or no mIgM. mIgD expression progressively decreases with increasing HEL-Ig Tgn B cell age. These observations suggest that self Ag-specific B cells can survive in the presence of soluble self Ag by down-regulating mIg expression, which should limit B cell signaling by Ag that might otherwise cause deletion of these cells.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antibodies, Monoclonal/administration & dosage
- B-Lymphocytes/cytology
- B-Lymphocytes/immunology
- B-Lymphocytes/metabolism
- B-Lymphocytes/transplantation
- Binding Sites, Antibody/genetics
- Bromodeoxyuridine/metabolism
- Cell Differentiation/genetics
- Cell Differentiation/immunology
- Cell Survival/genetics
- Cell Survival/immunology
- Female
- Immunoglobulin D/biosynthesis
- Immunoglobulin D/genetics
- Immunoglobulin D/metabolism
- Immunoglobulin M/biosynthesis
- Immunoglobulin M/genetics
- Immunoglobulin M/metabolism
- Immunophenotyping
- Injections, Intraperitoneal
- Interleukin-7/immunology
- Lymphocyte Depletion
- Lymphopenia/genetics
- Lymphopenia/immunology
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Transgenic
- Muramidase/immunology
- Muramidase/metabolism
- Receptors, Antigen, B-Cell/biosynthesis
- Receptors, Antigen, B-Cell/genetics
- Receptors, Antigen, B-Cell/metabolism
- Spleen/cytology
- Spleen/immunology
- Time Factors
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- S C Morris
- Division of Immunology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH 45267, USA.
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Hippen KL, Tze LE, Behrens TW. CD5 maintains tolerance in anergic B cells. J Exp Med 2000; 191:883-90. [PMID: 10704468 PMCID: PMC2195862 DOI: 10.1084/jem.191.5.883] [Citation(s) in RCA: 166] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/1999] [Accepted: 01/10/2000] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Clonal anergy of autoreactive B cells is a key mechanism regulating tolerance. Here, we show that anergic B cells express significant surface levels of CD5, a molecule normally found on T cells and a subset of B-1 cells. Breeding of the hen egg lysozyme (HEL) transgenic model for B cell anergy onto the CD5 null background resulted in a spontaneous loss of B cell tolerance in vivo. Evidence for this included elevated levels of anti-HEL immunoglobulin M (IgM) antibodies in the serum of CD5(-/-) mice transgenic for both an HEL-specific B cell receptor (BCR) and soluble lysozyme. "Anergic" B cells lacking CD5 also showed enhanced proliferative responses in vitro and elevated intracellular Ca(2+) levels at rest and after IgM cross-linking. These data support the hypothesis that CD5 negatively regulates Ig receptor signaling in anergic B cells and functions to inhibit autoimmune B cell responses.
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- K L Hippen
- Center for Immunology, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA.
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Hachemi-Rachedi S, Drapier AM, Cazenave PA, Sanchez P. Affiliation to mature B cell repertoire and positive selection can be separated in two distinct processes. Int Immunol 2000; 12:385-95. [PMID: 10700473 DOI: 10.1093/intimm/12.3.385] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Using an 'oligoclonal' model, we have previously shown that mice transgenic for a mu chain (H3) and deficient for kappa chain expression display a mature B cell repertoire largely dominated by the H3/lambda1 pair, while the four H3/lambda available combinations can be observed in the immature B cell compartment. This led us to propose the existence of a positive selection process. To test this hypothesis, we have introduced the SJL lambda locus coding for a defective lambda1 chain (lambda1(s)) that creates a dysfunctional Ig receptor complex during B cell differentiation. Our results show that the lambda1(s) defect impairs the development of mature B cells when the H3-mu transgene insert is present in the hemizygous state. This suggests that the Gly --> Val substitution present in the C(lambda)1(s) chain at position 155 is sufficient to abrogate the selection of the H3/lambda1 pair. Unexpectedly, when the H3-mu transgene array is present in a homozygous state in lambda1(s) mice but not in 'wild-type' lambda1 mice (lambda1(+)), a significant number of mature B cells expressing all H3/lambda combinations can be developed. These results indicate that the overriding H3/lambda1 dominance observed in lambda1(+) mice is due to a positive selection process and not to a negative selection of other H3/lambda combinations. They also show that the export of B cells to the periphery can be controlled by the expression of the mu chain.
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- S Hachemi-Rachedi
- Immunochimie Analytique, Institut Pasteur and Immunobiologie, Université Denis Diderot, 75251 Paris, France
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Cornall RJ, Cheng AM, Pawson T, Goodnow CC. Role of Syk in B-cell development and antigen-receptor signaling. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2000; 97:1713-8. [PMID: 10677523 PMCID: PMC26501 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.97.4.1713] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/23/1999] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Antigen receptors (BCRs) on developing B lymphocytes play two opposing roles-promoting survival of cells that may later bind a foreign antigen and inhibiting survival of cells that bind too strongly to self-antigens. It is not known how these opposing outcomes are signaled by BCRs on immature B cells. Here we analyze the effect of a null mutation in the Syk tyrosine kinase on maturing B cells displaying a transgene-encoded BCR that binds hen egg lysozyme (HEL). In the absence of HEL antigen, HEL-specific BCRs are expressed normally on the surface of Syk-deficient immature B-lineage cells, but this fails to promote maturation beyond the earliest stages of B-lineage commitment. Binding of HEL antigen, nevertheless, triggers phosphorylation of CD79alpha/beta BCR subunits and modulation of receptors from the surface in Syk-deficient cells, but it cannot induce an intracellular calcium response. Continuous binding of low- or high-avidity forms of HEL, expressed as self-antigens, fails to restore the signal needed for maturation. Compared with the effects in the same system of null mutations in other BCR signaling elements, such as CD45 and Lyn kinase, these results indicate that Syk is essential for transmitting a signal that initiates the program of B-lymphocyte maturation.
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- R J Cornall
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
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Choudhury A, Mukherjee P, Basu SK, George A, Rath S, Bal V. Disruption of T cell tolerance to self-immunoglobulin causes polyclonal B cell stimulation followed by inactivation of responding autoreactive T cells. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2000; 164:1713-21. [PMID: 10657615 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.164.4.1713] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Scavenger receptor (SR)-specific delivery by maleylation of a ubiquitous self-protein, Ig, to SR-bearing APCs results in self-limiting induction of autoimmune effects in vivo. Immunization with maleyl-Ig breaks T cell tolerance to self-Ig and causes hypergammaglobulinemia, with increases in spleen weight and cellularity. The majority of splenic B cells show an activated phenotype upon maleyl-Ig immunization, leading to large-scale conversion to a CD138+ phenotype and to significant increases in CD138-expressing splenic plasma cells. The polyclonal B cell activation, hypergammaglobulinemia, and autoreactive Ig-specific T cell responses decline over a 2-mo period postimmunization. Following adoptive transfer, T cells from maleyl-Ig-immune mice taken at 2 wk postimmunization can induce hypergammaglobulinemia in the recipients, but those taken at 10 wk postimmunization cannot. Hypergammaglobulinemia in the adoptive transfer recipients is also transient and is followed by an inability to respond to fresh maleyl-Ig immunization, suggesting that the autoreactive Ig-specific T cells are inactivated peripherally following disruption of tolerance. Thus, although autoreactive T cell responses to a ubiquitous self-Ag, Ig, are induced by SR-mediated delivery to professional APCs in vivo resulting in autoimmune pathophysiological effects, they are effectively and rapidly turned off by inactivation of these activated Ig-specific T cells in vivo.
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- A Choudhury
- National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, India
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Martin F, Kearney JF. Positive selection from newly formed to marginal zone B cells depends on the rate of clonal production, CD19, and btk. Immunity 2000; 12:39-49. [PMID: 10661404 DOI: 10.1016/s1074-7613(00)80157-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 284] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Using immunoglobulin heavy chain transgenic mice, we show that B cell clones reaching the long-lived pool are heterogeneous: some are enriched in the CD21(high) compartment (mostly marginal zone [MZ]), others reside primarily in the follicles (FO). Altering the composition of the B cell receptor through N region additions decreases the rate of clonal production and the MZ enrichment. This process can be recapitulated by purified CD21(low) B cells and is due to a preferential clonal survival that requires a functional btk tyrosine kinase. We also show that generation of the MZ population is dependent on CD19. These findings suggest that the MZ B cell repertoire is positively selected and have functional implications for antigenic responses effected by B cells from this microenvironment.
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MESH Headings
- Agammaglobulinaemia Tyrosine Kinase
- Animals
- Antigens, CD19/genetics
- Antigens, CD19/metabolism
- Antigens, CD19/physiology
- B-Lymphocytes/cytology
- B-Lymphocytes/immunology
- Bone Marrow Cells/cytology
- Bone Marrow Cells/immunology
- Cell Differentiation
- Cells, Cultured
- Clone Cells
- Hematopoietic Stem Cells/cytology
- Hematopoietic Stem Cells/immunology
- Immunoglobulin Idiotypes
- Immunophenotyping
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Inbred CBA
- Mice, Transgenic
- Protein-Tyrosine Kinases/metabolism
- Protein-Tyrosine Kinases/physiology
- Receptors, Antigen, B-Cell/metabolism
- Receptors, Complement 3d/metabolism
- Receptors, IgE/metabolism
- Spleen/cytology
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- F Martin
- Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 35294-3300, USA
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It is becoming well accepted that innate immunity serves as a natural adjuvant in enhancing and directing the adaptive immune response. In this review, I have discussed how the complement system, a major mediator of innate immunity, links the two systems. The recent availability of knockout mice bearing selective deficiencies in the critical complement proteins and receptors has allowed formal demonstration of the importance of complement in enhancement of humoral immunity. Characterization of the mice has also uncovered mechanisms for maintaining survival of activated B cells within the lymphoid compartment. For example, co-ligation of the CD21/CD19/Tapa-1 receptor with the BCR not only reduces the threshold for B cell follicular survival but provides a unique signal for survival in the germinal centers. In addition complement receptors are critical for localization of antigen and C3d ligand to FDCs for maintenance of long-term B cell memory. A surprise that has come from analysis of the deficient mice is that complement is also important in negative selection of B lymphocytes. This observation provides new insight to a long-standing enigma that the major predisposing factor in lupus is deficiency in complement C1q or C4. The seeming contradiction of dual role for complement in both B cell activation and tolerance is reconciled by the hypothesis that natural IgM provides a mechanism to selectively identify self-antigens that are highly conserved and cross-react with microbial ones such as DNA and nuclear proteins. Thus, the importance of complement in tolerance to self-antigens is restricted to those self-antigens that are evolutionary conserved, and they are identified by natural antibody. The future should hold further surprises as to the intricate interactions between the complement system and acquired immunity.
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MESH Headings
- Adjuvants, Immunologic
- Animals
- Antibody Formation
- Antigens/immunology
- Autoimmune Diseases/immunology
- Chickens
- Chimera
- Clonal Deletion
- Complement Activation
- Complement C3/immunology
- Complement System Proteins/deficiency
- Complement System Proteins/immunology
- Dendritic Cells, Follicular/immunology
- Female
- Guinea Pigs
- Humans
- Immune Tolerance/immunology
- Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic/immunology
- Lymphocyte Activation/immunology
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred Strains
- Mice, Knockout
- Mice, Transgenic
- Models, Immunological
- Muramidase/immunology
- Receptors, Antigen, B-Cell/immunology
- Receptors, Complement/immunology
- Receptors, Complement 3b/deficiency
- Receptors, Complement 3b/genetics
- Receptors, Complement 3b/immunology
- Receptors, Complement 3d/deficiency
- Receptors, Complement 3d/genetics
- Receptors, Complement 3d/immunology
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- M C Carroll
- Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Feuerstein N, Chen F, Madaio M, Maldonado M, Eisenberg RA. Induction of Autoimmunity in a Transgenic Model of B Cell Receptor Peripheral Tolerance: Changes in Coreceptors and B Cell Receptor-Induced Tyrosine-Phosphoproteins. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 1999. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.163.10.5287] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Abrogation of peripheral tolerance in transgenic mice that express a uniform B-cell receptor may create a powerful tool to examine the molecular mechanisms that underlie the autoimmune response in B cells. Here we report that processes that induce a systemic lupus erythematosus-like syndrome in normal mice, namely chronic graft vs host reaction, trigger systemic autoimmunity in a well-established transgenic mice model of B cell receptor peripheral tolerance. The induction of graft vs host reaction in mice that carry both a rearranged B cell Ag receptors specific for hen egg lysozyme and expressing chronically circulating hen egg lysozyme Ag resulted in induction of high and sustained levels of circulating anti-hen egg lysoyme autoantibodies and glomerulonephritis with proteinuria. This was associated with marked changes in expression of cell-surface proteins, such as CD23 and complement receptor 2. B cells from the graft vs host-induced mice could proliferate in vitro in response to self-Ag, and upon stimulation with anti-IgD demonstrated rapid phosphotyrosine phosphorylation of specific proteins, which could not be induced in the anergic double transgenic B cells. Conversely, loss of tolerance was not associated with a higher induction in the level of Syk kinase phosphorylation following stimulation with anti-IgD. Taken collectively, these data establish that 1) processes that induce a systemic lupus erythematosus-like syndrome in normal mice can abrogate peripheral tolerance in transgenic mice expressing self-tolerized B cells, and that 2) loss of tolerance in this model is associated with marked changes in surface expression of B cell coreceptors as well as with selective changes in IgD-induced signaling by discrete tyrosine-phosphoproteins, but not Syk kinase.
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- Nili Feuerstein
- *Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104; and
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- *Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104; and
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- *Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104; and
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- †Division of Renal-Electrolyte and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, PA 19104
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- *Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104; and
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Kraus M, Saijo K, Torres RM, Rajewsky K. Ig-alpha cytoplasmic truncation renders immature B cells more sensitive to antigen contact. Immunity 1999; 11:537-45. [PMID: 10591179 DOI: 10.1016/s1074-7613(00)80129-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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To study the function of Ig-alpha in the selection of autoreactive B cells, we have analyzed mb-1 cytoplasmic truncation mutant mice (mb-1delta(c)/delta(c)), which coexpress transgenes encoding hen egg lysozyme (HEL) and HEL-specific immunoglobulin. We demonstrate that in the presence of soluble HEL (sHEL) and dependent on the mb-1delta(c) mutation, most immature B cells bearing the HEL-specific Ig transgene undergo rearrangements of endogenous kappa light chains, resulting in loss of HEL specificity. Moreover, immature B cells from Ig-alpha mutant mice respond to BCR cross-linking with an exaggerated and prolonged calcium response and induction of protein tyrosine phosphorylation. Our data imply a negative signaling role for Ig-alpha in immature B cells.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antibody Specificity
- Antigens, CD/chemistry
- Antigens, CD/genetics
- Antigens, CD/immunology
- Apoptosis
- Autoantigens/genetics
- Autoantigens/immunology
- CD79 Antigens
- Calcium Signaling/immunology
- Clonal Deletion
- Crosses, Genetic
- Gene Rearrangement, B-Lymphocyte, Light Chain
- Immunoglobulin kappa-Chains/immunology
- Immunologic Capping
- Lymphocyte Activation/physiology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Transgenic
- Muramidase/genetics
- Muramidase/immunology
- Mutagenesis, Site-Directed
- Phosphorylation
- Protein Processing, Post-Translational/immunology
- Protein Structure, Tertiary
- Protein-Tyrosine Kinases/physiology
- Receptors, Antigen, B-Cell/chemistry
- Receptors, Antigen, B-Cell/genetics
- Receptors, Antigen, B-Cell/immunology
- Sequence Deletion
- Terminator Regions, Genetic
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- M Kraus
- Department of Immunology, Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Germany.
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Wang H, Schlomchik MJ. Regulation of autoreactive anti-IgG (rheumatoid factor) B cells in normal and autoimmune mice. Immunol Res 1999; 19:259-70. [PMID: 10493179 DOI: 10.1007/bf02786493] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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In systemic autoimmune disease, autoantibodies target specific self-components in patterns that depend on the particular underlying disease. Therefore, in order to understand how tolerance to these self-components breaks down, it is important to study B cells with those specificities, rather than artificial autoantigens. We have been investigating the regulation of autoreactive B cells with specificity for self IgG2a (the rheumatoid factor or RF specificity) in order to understand how normal mice regulate RF autoantibodies and how this fails in autoimmune mice. A transgenic (Tgic) mouse based on an RF isolated from a diseased MRL/lpr/lpr mouse was constructed and studied in both normal and autoimmune-prone genetic backgrounds. Normal mice do not appear to regulate the RF clone negatively, nor do they appear to activate it substantially. Thus, a disease-related RF is "clonally indifferent." However, in a, Fas-deficient autoimmune-prone animal, these RF B cells are activated to divide and secrete in an antigen-specific manner. A high-affinity RF Tgic mouse was also constructed to determine whether RFs could be tolerized in normal mice. These B cells were deleted or edited in the presence of the autoantigen, which originated from maternal IgG in young mice. Interestingly, shortly after weaning, many mice began to produce autoreactive RF. Escape from tolerance could last for months and was most likely perpetuated by a positive feedback mechanism. Such a mechanism could exist in autoimmune animals and could have important implications for chronic autoimmune disease, as discussed.
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- H Wang
- Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Laboratory Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520-8035, USA
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Kyburz D, Corr M, Brinson DC, Von Damm A, Tighe H, Carson DA. Human Rheumatoid Factor Production Is Dependent on CD40 Signaling and Autoantigen. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 1999. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.163.6.3116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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High-affinity pathologic rheumatoid factor (RF) B cells occur in autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, but are deleted in healthy individuals. The reasons for the survival and differentiation of these autoreactive B cells in rheumatoid arthritis are not known. Previous studies in mice transgenic for a human IgM RF have shown that peripheral encounter with soluble human IgG leads to deletion of high-affinity RF B cells; however, deletion can be prevented when concomitant T cell help is provided. This study aimed to further discern the minimal factors necessary not only for the in vivo survival of RF B cells, but also for their differentiation into Ab-secreting cells. The combination of MHC class II-reactive T cells and Ag induced the production of RF in human IgM RF transgenic mice, while either stimulus alone was ineffective. Neutralizing Abs against CD40 ligand (CD40L), but not against IL-4 or IL-15, abrogated IgM-RF production. Moreover, blockade of CD40L-CD40 allowed IgG to delete the RF precursor cells. Most importantly, activating Abs to CD40 could substitute entirely for T cell help in promoting the survival of RF precursors and in stimulating RF synthesis in T cell deficient animals. The data indicate that CD40 signaling alone can prevent deletion of RF B cells by Ag and in the presence of IgG is sufficient to trigger RF synthesis. The results suggest that selective induction of apoptosis in high-affinity RF B cells may be achieved by blockade of CD40L-CD40 interaction.
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- Diego Kyburz
- Department of Medicine and The Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093
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- Department of Medicine and The Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093
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- Department of Medicine and The Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093
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- Department of Medicine and The Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093
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- Department of Medicine and The Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093
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- Department of Medicine and The Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093
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So T, Ito HO, Tsujihata Y, Hirata M, Ueda T, Imoto T. The molecular weight ratio of monomethoxypolyethylene glycol (mPEG) to protein determines the immunotolerogenicity of mPEG proteins. PROTEIN ENGINEERING 1999; 12:701-5. [PMID: 10469832 DOI: 10.1093/protein/12.8.701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Immunotolerogenic activity of monomethoxypolyethylene glycol- (mPEG) conjugated proteins is a beneficial property in protein pharmaceutics. However, procedures for the preparation of tolerogenic mPEG proteins have not yet been defined. We prepared mPEG proteins with different mPEG contents using three proteins, hen egg lysozyme, ovalbumin and bovine gamma globulin, and their tolerogenicities to antigen-specific T and B cell responses were examined. We found the most appropriate ratio of tolerance induction to be 1.5-2.0, which is the molecular weight ratio of conjugated total mPEGs to protein. This value may assist in the preparation of tolerogenic mPEG proteins.
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- T So
- Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan
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Kang Y, Melo M, Deng E, Tisch R, El-Amine M, Scott DW. Induction of hyporesponsiveness to intact foreign protein via retroviral-mediated gene expression: the IgG scaffold is important for induction and maintenance of immune hyporesponsiveness. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1999; 96:8609-14. [PMID: 10411923 PMCID: PMC17564 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.96.15.8609] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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IgG molecules can be highly tolerogenic carriers for associated antigens. Previously, we reported that recipients of bone marrow or lipopolysaccharide-stimulated B-cell blasts, both of which were retrovirally gene-transferred with an immunodominant peptide in-frame with the variable region of a murine IgG heavy chain, were rendered profoundly unresponsive to that epitope. To further investigate whether tolerance to larger molecules can be achieved via this approach and whether the IgG scaffold is important for induction and maintenance of immunological tolerance, we engineered two retroviral constructs encoding the cI lambda repressor (MBAE-1-102 and MBAE-1-102-IgG) for gene transfer. Our results show that recipients of bone marrow or peripheral B cells, transduced with the MBAE-1-102-IgG recombinant, are hyporesponsive to p1-102. In addition, the self-IgG scaffold enhanced the induction and maintenance of such an immune hyporesponsiveness. Thus, our studies demonstrate that in vivo-expressed IgG heavy chain fusion protein can be processed and presented on the appropriate MHC class II, resulting in hyporesponsiveness to that antigen and offering an additional therapeutic approach to autoimmune diseases.
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- Y Kang
- Department of Immunology, Holland Laboratory of the American Red Cross, Rockville, MD 20855, USA
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Carroll M. Negative selection of self-reactive B lymphocytes involves complement. Curr Top Microbiol Immunol 1999; 246:21-7; discussion 28-9. [PMID: 10396035 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-60162-0_3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/13/2023]
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- M Carroll
- Center for Blood Research, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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A standard view of B cells in systemic autoimmunity is that they promote lupus by producing autoantibodies (autoAb). However, this view is incomplete because recent studies have revealed that autoimmune disease can be dissociated from autoAb deposition. Furthermore, the spontaneous T-cell activation and organ infiltration in systemic lupus erythematosus patients and animal models are difficult to explain entirely via a direct autoAb-mediated mechanism. In this review, we describe work addressing the B-cell functions of autoantigen presentation and autoAb production in lupus pathogenesis. In the JHD-MRL-Faslpr strain (JHD/lpr), a B-cell-deficient version of the lupus-prone MRL-Faslpr (MRL/lpr) mouse, spontaneous nephritis and dermatitis is abrogated, demonstrating that B cells have a primary role in disease. B cells play a similar role in Fas-intact, lupus-prone MRL mice. To address the role of autoantigen presentation, we analyzed transgenic mice which have B cells that cannot secrete immunoglobulin (mIgM transgenic mice). The restoration of B cells without antibody caused substantial interstitial nephritis and vasculitis although less marked than the intact MRL/lpr controls. To address the role of autoAb, we infused serum from aged MRL/lpr mice into JHD/lpr mice. At most, mild to no nephritis was observed in the infused mice. These results indicate that B cells are promoting autoimmunity in mechanisms other than autoAb secretion, and we describe a model depicting these B-cell roles in the context of other inflammatory events in lupus.
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- O T Chan
- Section of Immunobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven 06510, USA
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Sandel PC, Monroe JG. Negative selection of immature B cells by receptor editing or deletion is determined by site of antigen encounter. Immunity 1999; 10:289-99. [PMID: 10204485 DOI: 10.1016/s1074-7613(00)80029-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 150] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Immature B cells that encounter self-antigen are eliminated from the immune repertoire by negative selection. Negative selection has been proposed to take place by two distinct mechanisms: deletion by apoptosis or alteration of the antigen receptor specificity by receptor editing. While convincing evidence exists for each, the two models are inherently contradictory. In this paper, we propose a resolution to this contradiction by demonstrating that the site of first antigen encounter dictates which mechanism of negative selection is utilized. We demonstrate that the bone marrow microenvironment provides signals that block antigen-induced deletion and promote RAG reinduction. In the periphery, the absence of these signals allows the immature B cell to default to apoptosis as a result of BCR engagement.
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- P C Sandel
- Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104, USA
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Vilen BJ, Nakamura T, Cambier JC. Antigen-stimulated dissociation of BCR mIg from Ig-alpha/Ig-beta: implications for receptor desensitization. Immunity 1999; 10:239-48. [PMID: 10072076 PMCID: PMC3931429 DOI: 10.1016/s1074-7613(00)80024-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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B cell antigen receptor (BCR) ligation leads to receptor desensitization wherein BCR remain competent to bind antigen and yet fail to transduce signals. Desensitized BCR exhibit a defect at the most proximal level of signal transduction, consistent with failed transmission of signals through the receptor complex. We report that antigen stimulation leads to dissociation or destabilization of the BCR reflected by inability to coimmunoprecipitate Ig-alpha/Ig-beta with mIg. This destabilization is temporally correlated with desensitization and occurs in BCR containing mIgM and mIgD. Induction of BCR destabilization requires tyrosine kinase activation but is not induced by phosphatase inhibitors. BCR destabilization occurs at the cell surface and "dissociated" Ig-alpha/Ig-beta complexes remain responsive to anti-Ig-beta stimulation, suggesting that mIg-transducer uncoupling may mediate receptor desensitization.
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- Barbara J. Vilen
- Division of Basic Science, Department of Pediatrics, National Jewish Medical and Research Center Denver, Colorado 80206
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- Department of Infectious Diseases and Applied Immunology, The Institute of Medical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Shiroganedai, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108, Japan
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- Division of Basic Science, Department of Pediatrics, National Jewish Medical and Research Center Denver, Colorado 80206
- To whom correspondence should be addressed ()
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Qin XF, Schwers S, Yu W, Papavasiliou F, Suh H, Nussenzweig A, Rajewsky K, Nussenzweig MC. Secondary V(D)J recombination in B-1 cells. Nature 1999; 397:355-9. [PMID: 9950428 DOI: 10.1038/16933] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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B-1 B cells are a self-renewing population of B cells that differ from conventional B cells (B-2 cells) in that they are particularly predisposed to auto-antibody production. Although much is known about the signalling pathways that control B-1-cell growth and development, less is known about why these cells are prone to produce autoreactive antibodies. Here we show that B-1 cells, like germinal-centre B cells, can express recombinase-activating genes 1 and 2 (RAG1 and RAG2) and undergo secondary V(D)J recombination of immunoglobulin genes. In addition, B cells from autoimmune-prone NZB mice show high levels of RAG messenger RNA and recombination. We propose that secondary immunoglobulin-gene rearrangements outside organized lymphoid organs may contribute to the development of autoreactive antibodies.
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- X F Qin
- Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York 10021, USA
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Lohnas GL, Roberts SF, Pilon A, Tramontano A. Epitope-Specific Antibody and Suppression of Autoantibody Responses Against a Hybrid Self Protein. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 1998. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.161.12.6518] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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This study addresses the relationship of epitope-specific Ab responses and alternative autoantibody responses in a model system in which an antigenized self protein serves as the carrier for a defined heterologous B cell epitope. Ubiquitin, a nonimmunogenic self protein, was engineered to present heterologous B and T cell epitopes in the recombinant molecule. Fusion to the C terminus introduced a universal T cell epitope from a Mycobacterium tuberculosis Ag. The B cell epitope was created by inserting a 12-residue loop sequence of HIV-1 gp120 at a surface-exposed position of ubiquitin. These modifications preserved the ubiquitin fold, allowing a new conformational epitope to be presented among native self epitopes. Mice immunized with the hybrid protein bearing only the mycobacterial T cell epitope elicited a strong autoantibody response to native ubiquitin. In contrast, antisera elicited against hybrid ubiquitin presenting the HIV B cell epitope reacted specifically with the foreign epitope but not with native ubiquitin. Absence of autoantibody in the response was attributed to poor competition of autoreactive B cells for limiting T cell help. Both types of responses were associated with Th responses to defined epitopes of the ubiquitin hybrid protein. These results may have implications for a tolerance mechanism dependent on B-T cell cooperation.
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Prodeus AP, Goerg S, Shen LM, Pozdnyakova OO, Chu L, Alicot EM, Goodnow CC, Carroll MC. A critical role for complement in maintenance of self-tolerance. Immunity 1998; 9:721-31. [PMID: 9846493 DOI: 10.1016/s1074-7613(00)80669-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 290] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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The role of complement in the maintenance of self-tolerance has been examined in two models: an immunoglobulin transgenic model of peripheral tolerance and a lupus-like murine model of CD95 (Fas) deficiency. We find that self-reactive B lymphocytes deficient in complement receptors CD21/CD35 or transferred into mice deficient in the complement protein C4 are not anergized by soluble self-antigen. In the second model, deficiency in CD21/CD35 or C4 combined with CD95 deficiency results in high titers of anti-nuclear antibodies leading to severe lupus-like disease. These findings suggest a novel role for the complement system in B cell tolerance and provide insight into the genetic association of complement deficiency with susceptibility to systemic lupus erythematosus.
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- A P Prodeus
- The Center for Blood Research, Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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Cornall RJ, Goodnow CC. B cell antigen receptor signalling in the balance of tolerance and immunity. NOVARTIS FOUNDATION SYMPOSIUM 1998; 215:21-30; discussion 30-40. [PMID: 9760569 DOI: 10.1002/9780470515525.ch3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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The quantity and quality of signals from the B cell antigen receptor (BCR) drives the positive and negative selection of B lymphocytes and establishes the balance of tolerance and immunity. Experiments using immunoglobulin transgenic mice and mutations in key BCR signalling components have given insight into how the antigen receptor is tuned and how thresholds for qualitatively different outcomes are established and maintained. This research also describes how genetic variants can shift the balance between autoimmunity and tolerance.
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- R J Cornall
- Nuffield Department of Medicine, Oxford University, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, UK
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Aït-Azzouzene D, Gendron MC, Houdayer M, Langkopf A, Bürki K, Nemazee D, Kanellopoulos-Langevin C. Maternal B Lymphocytes Specific for Paternal Histocompatibility Antigens Are Partially Deleted During Pregnancy. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 1998. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.161.6.2677] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Although genetically different from its mother, a mammalian fetus bearing paternal alloantigens is normally not rejected. To investigate one of the many possible mechanisms involved in this important biologic phenomenon, we analyzed the consequences of fetal alloantigen recognition on maternal B lymphocytes. We used transgenic mice expressing a unique B cell receptor with a relatively high affinity for the MHC class I molecule H-2Kk on most B lymphocytes. We provide the first evidence for an alloantigen-specific B cell deletion in the spleens and bone marrow of transgenic mothers bearing H-2Kk-positive fetuses. This highly reproducible deletion affects ≤80% of Id-bearing B cells, starts at midpregnancy, and is only observed until term. Such a specific maternal B cell deletion could contribute to the success of the fetal allograft.
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- Djemel Aït-Azzouzene
- *Laboratory of Immune Regulations and Development, Department of Developmental Biology, and
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- †Flow Cytometry Unit, J. Monod Institute, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Universities Paris 6 and 7, Paris, France
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- *Laboratory of Immune Regulations and Development, Department of Developmental Biology, and
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- *Laboratory of Immune Regulations and Development, Department of Developmental Biology, and
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- §Division of Basic Sciences, National Jewish Center for Immunology and Respiratory Medicine, Denver, CO 80206
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Khoo NK, Fahlén L, Sentman CL. Modulation of Ly49A receptors on mature cells to changes in major histocompatibility complex class I molecules. Immunol Suppl 1998; 95:126-31. [PMID: 9767467 PMCID: PMC1364386 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2567.1998.00577.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The expression of murine Ly49 receptors on natural killer (NK) cells and NK1.1+ T cells is believed to prevent these cells from responding against normal self-tissues. In this report we investigated whether the expression level of Ly49A was fixed on mature cells or if it could be adapted as the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I environment changed in vivo. By transferring peripheral T cells from Ly49A transgenic mice into BALB/c nude/nude and B6 nude/nude mice, we demonstrated that mature cells modulate their Ly49A receptor expression relative to the in vivo MHC class I environment. These results indicated that the expression of the inhibitory Ly49A receptor is not permanently fixed during a maturation and/or education process but rather is adapted to MHC class I changes on the surrounding cells.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antigens, Ly
- Flow Cytometry
- Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class I
- Killer Cells, Natural/immunology
- Killer Cells, Natural/transplantation
- Lectins, C-Type
- Membrane Glycoproteins/immunology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Nude
- Mice, Transgenic
- NK Cell Lectin-Like Receptor Subfamily A
- Receptors, Immunologic/immunology
- Receptors, NK Cell Lectin-Like
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- N K Khoo
- Umeâ Center for Molecular Pathogenesis, Umeâ University, S-901 87 Umeâ, Sweden
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Fazekas de St Groth B. Nature versus nurture: contributions of developmental programming and the microenvironment to B cell tolerance. Immunol Cell Biol 1998; 76:369-72. [PMID: 9723779 DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1711.1998.00755.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The original Burnet Lederberg and Bretscher Cohn models of immunological tolerance are essentially incompatible, one considering tolerance to be the obligatory outcome of antigen recognition by an immature lymphocyte and the other considering it as one of two possible responses to antigen, the crucial determinant being interaction with a second antigen-reactive cell. The early experimental evidence was confusing, in that it appeared to support both theories. In response to this situation, a hybrid model retaining some of the features of the original models was proposed. In particular, immature B cells were regarded as 'hypersensitive to tolerance induction', but could also make a positive response to antigen under some circumstances. More recent data from B cell transgenic mice have challenged even these hybrid models, stimulating renewed interest in the question of how B cell tolerance is regulated in vivo. This article presents a new interpretation of the data, in which the increased resistance of mature B cells to tolerance induction is postulated to result from partial receptor desensitization in response to environmental antigen, rather than from a developmentally programmed change in B cell signalling. Thus, it is suggested that Burnet's 'window of tolerance induction' is determined by the environment rather than developmental pre-programming. If this postulate is accepted, induction of B cell self-tolerance in both the bone marrow and periphery follows the simple and elegant rules originally laid down by Bretscher and Cohn.
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- B Fazekas de St Groth
- Centenary Institute of Cancer Medicine and Cell Biology, Newtown, New South Wales, Australia.
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We have previously demonstrated that antigen-specific T cell help can rescue mature Ig transgenic (Tg) hen egg lysozyme (HEL)-specific B cells from tolerance induction upon transfer into soluble HEL-expressing Tg hosts. Here we extend these findings by showing that T cell help could also rescue both immature and mature self-reactive B cells from rapid deletion in response to high-avidity membrane-bound HEL. Moreover, although short-lived anergic peripheral B cells that had matured in the presence of soluble self antigen could not be rescued by provision of T cell help, a proportion of immature anergic IgM+ IgD- CD23- B cells from the bone marrow of the same donors survived and proliferated when given help following transfer to a soluble or membrane HEL-expressing host. In other words, T cell help must be available relatively soon after the antigen signal to prevent induction of tolerance. Consistent with this interpretation, the stronger stimulus provided by membrane-bound antigen, which deletes immature B cells before they leave the bone marrow, did not afford an opportunity for T cell help to rescue tolerant immature bone marrow-derived B cells upon transfer in vivo. Nevertheless, these B cells were capable of responding to T cell help in vitro, which speaks against an immutable susceptibility of immature B cells to tolerance induction. Taken together, these data indicate that the strength of the antigen signal and availability of T cell help are the primary determinants of the fate of both immature and mature B cells, consistent with the model proposed by Bretscher and Cohn more than 25 years ago.
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- M C Cook
- Centenary Institute of Cancer Medicine and Cell Biology, Newtown, NSW, Australia
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Naito A, Suzuki Y, Azuma T. Regulation of promoter and intron enhancer activity in immunoglobulin heavy-chain genes during B-cell differentiation. Microbiol Immunol 1998; 42:399-405. [PMID: 9654373 DOI: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.1998.tb02301.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT) transgenic mice, in which the transgene is regulated by the VH promoter and heavy-chain intron enhancer (E mu), were examined to investigate the variation of activity of these cis-acting elements during the late stage of B-cell development. CAT enzyme activity decreased when resting B cells were stimulated through B-cell receptors (BCR) with goat anti-mouse IgM antibodies in vitro. On the other hand, when these B cells were stimulated by lipopolysaccharide (LPS) in vitro, they showed enhanced CAT activity, accompanied by an increase in the number of CD43+ B220+ cells (pro-plasma and plasma cells). In addition, the CAT activities in CD43+ B220+ and PNAhi B220+ cells from immunized mice were higher than those in CD43- B220+ and PNAlo B220+ cells, respectively. These results suggest that the activity of E mu in the context of VH promoter was transiently down-regulated by stimulation through the BCR but enhanced at the pro-plasma and plasma stages.
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- A Naito
- Division of Molecular Immunology, Research Institute for Biological Sciences, Science University of Tokyo, Chiba, Japan
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Fang W, Weintraub BC, Dunlap B, Garside P, Pape KA, Jenkins MK, Goodnow CC, Mueller DL, Behrens TW. Self-reactive B lymphocytes overexpressing Bcl-xL escape negative selection and are tolerized by clonal anergy and receptor editing. Immunity 1998; 9:35-45. [PMID: 9697834 DOI: 10.1016/s1074-7613(00)80586-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Self-reactive B cells Tg for both a bcl-xL death inhibitory gene and an Ig receptor recognizing hen egg lysozyme (HEL-Ig) efficiently escaped developmental arrest and deletion in mice expressing membrane-bound self-antigen (mHEL). In response to the same antigen, Tg HEL-Ig B cells not expressing bcl-xL were deleted, while cells expressing bcl-2 were arrested at the immature B stage. Bcl-xL Tg B cells escaping negative selection were anergic in both in vitro and in vivo assays and showed some evidence for receptor editing. These studies suggest that Bcl-x may have a distinct role in controlling survival at the immature stage of B cell development and demonstrate that tolerance is preserved when self-reactive B cells escape central deletion.
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- W Fang
- Center for Immunology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis 55455, USA
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Watanabe N, Nomura T, Takai T, Chiba T, Honjo T, Tsubata T. Antigen receptor cross-linking by anti-immunoglobulin antibodies coupled to cell surface membrane induces rapid apoptosis of normal spleen B cells. Scand J Immunol 1998; 47:541-7. [PMID: 9652821 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3083.1998.00346.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Cross-linking of surface immunoglobulin (sIg) has been shown to induce either activation or apoptosis of mature B cells presumably depending on the nature of antigens. However, the nature of antigens for induction of mature B-cell apoptosis is not yet fully understood. We cross-linked sIg of mature B cells with various amounts of either anti-Ig antibodies in the soluble form or anti-Ig coupled to erythrocytes or myeloma cells as surrogate membrane-bound antigens. Anti-Ig antibodies coupled to cell surface membrane induced rapid and extensive apoptosis of normal spleen B cells even in the absence of signalling via the Fc receptor. In contrast, soluble anti-Ig induced proliferation or apoptosis of mature B cells depending on the concentration of anti-Ig. The extent of apoptosis induced by soluble anti-Ig was limited compared to that induced by membrane-bound anti-Ig. These results suggest that mature B cells undergo apoptosis or proliferation depending on whether antigens are soluble or membrane-bound and on antigen doses.
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- N Watanabe
- Department of Medical Chemistry, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
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Antigen receptors on lymphocytes play a central role in immune regulation by transmitting signals that positively or negatively regulate lymphocyte survival, migration, growth, and differentiation. This review focuses on how opposing positive or negative cellular responses are brought about by antigen receptor signaling. Four types of extracellular inputs shape the response to antigen: (a) the concentration of antigen; (b) the avidity with which antigen is bound; (c) the timing and duration of antigen encounter; and (d) the association of antigen with costimuli from pathogens, the innate immune system, or other lymphocytes. Intracellular signaling by antigen receptors is not an all-or-none event, and these external variables alter both the quantity and quality of signaling. Recent findings in B lymphocytes have clearly illustrated that these external inputs affect the magnitude and duration of the intracellular calcium response, which in turn contributes to differential triggering of the transcriptional regulators NF kappa B, JNK, NFAT, and ERK. The regulation of calcium responses involves a network of tyrosine kinases (e.g. lyn, syk), tyrosine or lipid phosphatases (CD45, SHP-1, SHIP), and accessory molecules (CD21/CD19, CD22, FcR gamma 2b). Understanding the biochemistry and logic behind these integrative processes will allow development of more selective and efficient pharmaceuticals that suppress, modify, or augment immune responses in autoimmunity, transplantation, allergy, vaccines, and cancer.
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- J I Healy
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, California 94305, USA.
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Martin F, Won WJ, Kearney JF. Generation of the Germline Peripheral B Cell Repertoire: VH81X-λ B Cells Are Unable to Complete All Developmental Programs. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 1998. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.160.8.3748] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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The generation of VH81X heavy chain λ-light chain-expressing B cells (VH81X-λ+ B cells) was studied in VH81X heavy chain transgenic mice as well as in VH81X JH −/− and VH81X JH −/− Ck −/− mice, in which competition resulting from expression of heavy and light chains from the endogenous heavy and κ light chain loci was prevented. We show that although λ light chain gene rearrangements occur normally and give rise to light chains that associate with the transgenic heavy chain to form surface and soluble IgM molecules, further B cell development is almost totally blocked. The few VH81X-λ+ B cells that are generated progress into a mature compartment (expressing surface CD21, CD22, CD23, and low CD24 and having a relatively long life span) but they also have reduced levels of surface Ig receptor and express higher amounts of Fas Ag than VH81X-κ+ B cells. These VH81X-λ+ B cells reach the peripheral lymphoid organs and accumulate in the periarteriolar lymphoid sheath but are unable to generate primary B cell follicles. In other heavy chain transgenic mice (MD2, M167, and M54), λ+ B cells are generated. However, they seem to be preferentially selected in the peripheral repertoire of some transgenic heavy chain mice (M54) but not in others (MD2, M167). These studies show that a crucial selection step is necessary for B cell survival and maintenance in which B cells, similar to T cells, receive signals depending on their clonal receptors.
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- Flavius Martin
- Division of Developmental and Clinical Immunology, Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35394
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- Division of Developmental and Clinical Immunology, Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35394
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- Division of Developmental and Clinical Immunology, Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35394
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Cornall RJ, Cyster JG, Hibbs ML, Dunn AR, Otipoby KL, Clark EA, Goodnow CC. Polygenic autoimmune traits: Lyn, CD22, and SHP-1 are limiting elements of a biochemical pathway regulating BCR signaling and selection. Immunity 1998; 8:497-508. [PMID: 9586639 DOI: 10.1016/s1074-7613(00)80554-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 324] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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A B lymphocyte hyperactivity syndrome resembling systemic lupus erythematosus characterizes mice lacking the src-family kinase Lyn. Lyn is not required to initiate B cell antigen receptor (BCR) signaling but is an essential inhibitory component. lyn-/- B cells have a delayed but increased calcium flux and exaggerated negative selection responses in the presence of antigen and spontaneous hyperactivity in the absence of antigen. As in invertebrates, genetic effects of loci with only one functional allele can be used to analyze signaling networks in mice, demonstrating that negative regulation of the BCR is a complex quantitative trait in which Lyn, the coreceptor CD22, and the tyrosine phosphatase SHP-1 are each limiting elements. The biochemical basis of this complex trait involves a pathway requiring Lyn to phosphorylate CD22 and recruit SHP-1 to the CD22/BCR complex.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antigens, CD/genetics
- Antigens, CD/immunology
- Antigens, CD/metabolism
- Antigens, Differentiation, B-Lymphocyte/genetics
- Antigens, Differentiation, B-Lymphocyte/immunology
- Antigens, Differentiation, B-Lymphocyte/metabolism
- Autoantigens/metabolism
- Autoimmunity/genetics
- B-Lymphocytes/immunology
- B-Lymphocytes/metabolism
- Cell Adhesion Molecules
- Female
- Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins
- Lectins
- Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic/genetics
- Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic/immunology
- Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic/metabolism
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Knockout
- Mice, Transgenic
- Muramidase/immunology
- Phenotype
- Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase, Non-Receptor Type 11
- Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase, Non-Receptor Type 6
- Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases/genetics
- Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases/immunology
- Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases/metabolism
- Quantitative Trait, Heritable
- Radiation Chimera
- Receptors, Antigen, B-Cell/metabolism
- Sialic Acid Binding Ig-like Lectin 2
- Signal Transduction
- src-Family Kinases/deficiency
- src-Family Kinases/genetics
- src-Family Kinases/immunology
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- R J Cornall
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California 94305, USA
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Recent studies indicate that immature B cells compete with recirculating B cells for survival signals. The signals, delivered through the B-cell receptor for antigen, induce immature cells to differentiate into recirculating cells and maintain the survival of recirculating cells. They do not induce proliferation or differentiation to antibody-producing cells.
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- I C MacLennan
- Department of Immunology, University of Birmingham Medical School, UK.
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