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Singh M, Jackson KJL, Wang JJ, Schofield P, Field MA, Koppstein D, Peters TJ, Burnett DL, Rizzetto S, Nevoltris D, Masle-Farquhar E, Faulks ML, Russell A, Gokal D, Hanioka A, Horikawa K, Colella AD, Chataway TK, Blackburn J, Mercer TR, Langley DB, Goodall DM, Jefferis R, Gangadharan Komala M, Kelleher AD, Suan D, Rischmueller M, Christ D, Brink R, Luciani F, Gordon TP, Goodnow CC, Reed JH. Lymphoma Driver Mutations in the Pathogenic Evolution of an Iconic Human Autoantibody. Cell 2020; 180:878-894.e19. [PMID: 32059783 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2020.01.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2019] [Revised: 11/11/2019] [Accepted: 01/22/2020] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
Abstract
Pathogenic autoantibodies arise in many autoimmune diseases, but it is not understood how the cells making them evade immune checkpoints. Here, single-cell multi-omics analysis demonstrates a shared mechanism with lymphoid malignancy in the formation of public rheumatoid factor autoantibodies responsible for mixed cryoglobulinemic vasculitis. By combining single-cell DNA and RNA sequencing with serum antibody peptide sequencing and antibody synthesis, rare circulating B lymphocytes making pathogenic autoantibodies were found to comprise clonal trees accumulating mutations. Lymphoma driver mutations in genes regulating B cell proliferation and V(D)J mutation (CARD11, TNFAIP3, CCND3, ID3, BTG2, and KLHL6) were present in rogue B cells producing the pathogenic autoantibody. Antibody V(D)J mutations conferred pathogenicity by causing the antigen-bound autoantibodies to undergo phase transition to insoluble aggregates at lower temperatures. These results reveal a pre-neoplastic stage in human lymphomagenesis and a cascade of somatic mutations leading to an iconic pathogenic autoantibody.
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- Mandeep Singh
- The Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010, Australia
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- Department of Immunology, Flinders University and SA Pathology, Bedford Park, SA 5042, Australia
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- The Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010, Australia; St. Vincent's Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
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- Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine and Centre for Tropical Bioinformatics and Molecular Biology, James Cook University, Smithfield, QLD 4878, Australia; The John Curtin School of Medical Research, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
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- Kirby Institute for Infection and Immunity, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
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- The Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010, Australia
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- The Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010, Australia; St. Vincent's Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
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- Kirby Institute for Infection and Immunity, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
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- The Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010, Australia; St. Vincent's Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
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- The Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010, Australia; St. Vincent's Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
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- The Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010, Australia
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- The Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010, Australia
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- The Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010, Australia
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- The John Curtin School of Medical Research, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia; Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo 113-851, Japan
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- The John Curtin School of Medical Research, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
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- Department of Immunology, Flinders University and SA Pathology, Bedford Park, SA 5042, Australia; Flinders Proteomics Facility, Flinders University, Bedford Park, SA 5042, Australia
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- Flinders Proteomics Facility, Flinders University, Bedford Park, SA 5042, Australia
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- The Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010, Australia; St. Vincent's Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
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- The Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010, Australia; St. Vincent's Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia; Altius Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Seattle, WA 98121, USA
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- The Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010, Australia
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- Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
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- Institute of Immunology and Immunotherapy, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK
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- Kirby Institute for Infection and Immunity, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
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- The Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010, Australia; Westmead Clinical School, The University of Sydney, Westmead, NSW 2145, Australia
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- Rheumatology Department, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and Discipline of Medicine, University of Adelaide, Woodville South, SA 5011, Australia
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- The Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010, Australia; St. Vincent's Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
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- The Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010, Australia; St. Vincent's Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
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- Kirby Institute for Infection and Immunity, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia; School of Medical Sciences and Cellular Genomics Futures Institute, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia
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- Department of Immunology, Flinders University and SA Pathology, Bedford Park, SA 5042, Australia
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- The Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010, Australia; School of Medical Sciences and Cellular Genomics Futures Institute, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia.
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- The Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, NSW 2010, Australia; St. Vincent's Clinical School, Faculty of Medicine, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia.
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Hwang KK, Trama AM, Kozink DM, Chen X, Wiehe K, Cooper AJ, Xia SM, Wang M, Marshall DJ, Whitesides J, Alam M, Tomaras GD, Allen SL, Rai KR, McKeating J, Catera R, Yan XJ, Chu CC, Kelsoe G, Liao HX, Chiorazzi N, Haynes BF. IGHV1-69 B cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia antibodies cross-react with HIV-1 and hepatitis C virus antigens as well as intestinal commensal bacteria. PLoS One 2014; 9:e90725. [PMID: 24614505 PMCID: PMC3948690 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0090725] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2013] [Accepted: 02/03/2014] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
Abstract
B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL) patients expressing unmutated immunoglobulin heavy variable regions (IGHVs) use the IGHV1-69 B cell receptor (BCR) in 25% of cases. Since HIV-1 envelope gp41 antibodies also frequently use IGHV1-69 gene segments, we hypothesized that IGHV1-69 B-CLL precursors may contribute to the gp41 B cell response during HIV-1 infection. To test this hypothesis, we rescued 5 IGHV1-69 unmutated antibodies as heterohybridoma IgM paraproteins and as recombinant IgG1 antibodies from B-CLL patients, determined their antigenic specificities and analyzed BCR sequences. IGHV1-69 B-CLL antibodies were enriched for reactivity with HIV-1 envelope gp41, influenza, hepatitis C virus E2 protein and intestinal commensal bacteria. These IGHV1-69 B-CLL antibodies preferentially used IGHD3 and IGHJ6 gene segments and had long heavy chain complementary determining region 3s (HCDR3s) (≥21 aa). IGHV1-69 B-CLL BCRs exhibited a phenylalanine at position 54 (F54) of the HCDR2 as do rare HIV-1 gp41 and influenza hemagglutinin stem neutralizing antibodies, while IGHV1-69 gp41 antibodies induced by HIV-1 infection predominantly used leucine (L54) allelic variants. These results demonstrate that the B-CLL cell population is an expansion of members of the innate polyreactive B cell repertoire with reactivity to a number of infectious agent antigens including intestinal commensal bacteria. The B-CLL IGHV1-69 B cell usage of F54 allelic variants strongly suggests that IGHV1-69 B-CLL gp41 antibodies derive from a restricted B cell pool that also produces rare HIV-1 gp41 and influenza hemagglutinin stem antibodies.
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- Kwan-Ki Hwang
- Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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- The Karches Center for Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Research, The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, New York, United States of America
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- The Karches Center for Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Research, The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, New York, United States of America
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- School of Immunity and Infection, Institute of Biomedical Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
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- The Karches Center for Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Research, The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, New York, United States of America
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- The Karches Center for Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Research, The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, New York, United States of America
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- The Karches Center for Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Research, The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Immunology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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- Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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- The Karches Center for Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Research, The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, Manhasset, New York, United States of America
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- Duke Human Vaccine Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
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Que X, Widhopf II GF, Amir S, Hartvigsen K, Hansen LF, Woelkers D, Tsimikas S, Binder CJ, Kipps TJ, Witztum JL. IGHV1-69-encoded antibodies expressed in chronic lymphocytic leukemia react with malondialdehyde-acetaldehyde adduct, an immunodominant oxidation-specific epitope. PLoS One 2013; 8:e65203. [PMID: 23840319 PMCID: PMC3688726 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/18/2013] [Accepted: 04/17/2013] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
Abstract
The immunoglobulins expressed by chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) B cells are highly restricted, suggesting they are selected for binding either self or foreign antigen. Of the immunoglobulin heavy-chain variable (IGHV) genes expressed in CLL, IGHV1-69 is the most common, and often is expressed with little or no somatic mutation, and restricted IGHD and IGHJ gene usage. We found that antibodies encoded by one particular IGHV1-69 subset, designated CLL69C, with the HCDR3 encoded by the IGHD3-3 gene in reading frame 2 and IGHJ6, specifically bound to oxidation-specific epitopes (OSE), which are products of enhanced lipid peroxidation and a major target of innate natural antibodies. Specifically, CLL69C bound immunodominant OSE adducts termed MAA (malondialdehyde–acetaldehyde-adducts), which are found on apoptotic cells, inflammatory tissues, and atherosclerotic lesions. It also reacted specifically with MAA-specific peptide mimotopes. Light chain shuffling indicated that non-stochastically paired L chain of IGLV3-9 contributes to the antigen binding of CLL69C. A nearly identical CLL69C Ig heavy chain was identified from an MAA-enriched umbilical cord phage displayed Fab library, and a derived Fab with the same HCDR3 rearrangement displayed identical MAA-binding properties. These data support the concept that OSE (MAA-epitopes), which are ubiquitous products of inflammation, may play a role in clonal selection and expansion of CLL B cells.
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MESH Headings
- Acetaldehyde/immunology
- Adult
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Antibodies, Neoplasm/chemistry
- Antibodies, Neoplasm/metabolism
- Antibody Specificity
- Apoptosis
- B-Lymphocytes/immunology
- B-Lymphocytes/metabolism
- Base Sequence
- Epitopes/immunology
- HEK293 Cells
- Humans
- Immunoglobulin Heavy Chains/chemistry
- Immunoglobulin Heavy Chains/metabolism
- Immunoglobulin Light Chains/metabolism
- Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell/immunology
- Lipid Peroxidation
- Lipoproteins, LDL/immunology
- Malondialdehyde/immunology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Oxidation-Reduction
- Plaque, Atherosclerotic/immunology
- Plaque, Atherosclerotic/metabolism
- Plaque, Atherosclerotic/pathology
- Protein Binding
- Rabbits
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- Xuchu Que
- Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- * E-mail: (XQ); (JLW)
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- Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Moores Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Department of Reproductive Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
- Center for Molecular Medicine (CeMM) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- Moores Cancer Center, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
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- Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
- * E-mail: (XQ); (JLW)
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The normal IGHV1-69-derived B-cell repertoire contains stereotypic patterns characteristic of unmutated CLL. Blood 2009; 115:71-7. [PMID: 19887677 DOI: 10.1182/blood-2009-06-225813] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
Abstract
The cell of origin of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) has long been sought, and immunoglobulin gene analysis provides new clues. In the unmutated subset (U-CLL), there is increased usage of the 51p1-related alleles of the immunoglobulin heavy chain variable 1-69 gene, often combined with selected genes and with immunoglobulin heavy chain diversity IGHJ6. Stereotypic characteristics of the HCDR3 result and suggest antigen selection of the leukemic clones. We have now analyzed 51p1/IGHJ6 combinations in normal blood B cells from 3 healthy persons for parallel sequence patterns. A high proportion (33.3% of sequences) revealed stereotypic patterns, with several (15.0%) being similar to those described in U-CLL. Previously unreported CLL-associated stereotypes were detected in 4.8%. Stereotypes (13.6%) not detected in CLL also were found. The HCDR2-IGHJ6 sequences were essentially unmutated. Junctional amino acids in normal B cells were heterogeneous, as in cases of stereotyped CLL. Phenotypically, normal B cells expressing 51p1-derived immunoglobulin M were naive. This snapshot of the naive B-cell repertoire reveals subsets of B cells closely related to those characteristic of CLL. Conserved patterns in the 51p1-encoded immunoglobulin M of normal B cells suggest a restricted sequence repertoire shaped by evolution to recognize common pathogens. Proliferative pressure on these cells is the likely route to U-CLL.
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Tobin G, Söderberg O, Thunberg U, Rosenquist R. VH3-21 Gene Usage in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia – Characterization of a New Subgroup with Distinct Molecular Features and Poor Survival. Leuk Lymphoma 2009; 45:221-8. [PMID: 15101705 DOI: 10.1080/1042819031000147018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
Abstract
During recent years it has become evident that lymphoproliferative diseases of B-cell origin display preferential immunoglobulin (Ig) variable heavy chain (V(H)) gene usage. For instance, the V(H)1-69 and V(H)4-34 genes were early found to be overexpressed in B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and other B-cell lymphomas. The implications of biased V(H) gene usage have been speculated to be a result of stimulation of unknown antigens, which gives increased proliferation of B-cells with certain V(H) gene configuration and consequently higher probability to undergo transformation. Thus, V(H) gene usage may play a role in development of leukemias and lymphomas. Recently, we could confirm the over usage of the V(H)1-69 and V(H)4-34 genes in CLL, but a novel finding was that the V(H)3-21 gene was preferentially utilized in CLL patients with mutated V(H) genes. These V(H)3-21+ Ig rearrangements showed molecular peculiarities such as shorter lengths of the third complementarity determining region (CDR) and had similar amino acid composition of their CDR3s, implicating recognition of the same antigen in individual tumors. Most of the V(H)3-21+ patients also showed a predominance of lambda chain expression and biased usage of 1 specific V(lambda) gene, V2-14. Furthermore, overall survival appeared to correlate with V(H)3-21 usage and, regardless of V(H) gene mutation status, V(H)3-21+ patients had a poor outcome. All in all, it appears that V(H)3-21 gene usage define a new entity of CLL. The remaining question now to be clarified is if antigen(s) actually are involved in the pathogenesis of V(H)3-21+ CLL.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Antigens/metabolism
- Cell Transformation, Neoplastic
- Cohort Studies
- Complement System Proteins
- Gene Rearrangement, B-Lymphocyte, Heavy Chain
- Humans
- Immunoglobulin Heavy Chains/chemistry
- Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell/genetics
- Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell/mortality
- Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell/therapy
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Prognosis
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- Gerard Tobin
- Department of Genetics and Pathology, Rudbeck Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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Kipps TJ, Rassenti LZ, Duffy S, Kobayashi R, Martin T, Chen PP, Carson DA. Immunoglobulin Gene Rearrangement and Expression in B-CLL. Leuk Lymphoma 2009; 5 Suppl 1:39-45. [DOI: 10.3109/10428199109103377] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Yoshinari K, Arai K, Matsumoto K, Kimura H. Relationship between antibody productivity by activated human lymph node lymphocytes from lung cancer patients and lymphocyte subsets. Cytotechnology 2008; 29:229-36. [PMID: 19003346 DOI: 10.1023/a:1008052326963] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
Abstract
Regional lymph node lymphocytes from five patients with primary lung cancer were analyzed for subset composition, and exposed in vitro to the polyclonal human B cell mitogen Staphylococcus aureus Cowan I (SACI) or the murine B cell mitogen lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and then fused with mouse myeloma cells for investigation at the clonal level of their antibody (Ab) production and its statistical relation to the original subset composition. No correlation was found between the proportion of CD19+, CD23+, or CD3+ cells in the lymphocyte sample prior to its exposure to either SACI or LPS, and the Ab production efficiency, defined as the ratio of the number of Ab producing wells to the total number of proliferating wells. For lymphocytes exposed to LPS, however, a strong correlation (r = 0.931, p = 0.02) was observed between the Ab production efficiency and the ratio of CD8+ to CD3+ cells (CD8/CD3) in the original sample at least within the ranges studied (CD8/CD3 = 0.216-0.288). For those exposed to SACI, no correlation was found between the Ab production efficiency and the CD8/CD3 ratio (r = 0.881, p = 0.12) or the proportion of CD8+ cells (r = 0.808, p = 0.19) in the original sample. These results suggest that the repertoire of B cells responsive to LPS is different at least in part from the repertoire responsive to SACI and that the ratio CD8/CD3 could serve as a practical predictor for Ab production by human lymphocytes stimulated with LPS.
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- K Yoshinari
- Diagnostics R&D Department, Asahi Chemical Industry Co. Ltd., Ohito-cho, Shizuoka, 410-2321, Japan,
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Widhopf GF, Rassenti LZ, Toy TL, Gribben JG, Wierda WG, Kipps TJ. Chronic lymphocytic leukemia B cells of more than 1% of patients express virtually identical immunoglobulins. Blood 2004; 104:2499-504. [PMID: 15217828 DOI: 10.1182/blood-2004-03-0818] [Citation(s) in RCA: 185] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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We examined the immunoglobulin (Ig) heavy chain variable region genes (V(H) genes) used by leukemia cells of 1220 unrelated patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). We found 1188 (97%) expressed Ig encoded by a single Ig V(H) subgroup, the most common of which was V(H)3 (571 or 48.1%), followed by V(H)1 (319 or 26.8%) and V(H)4 (241 or 20.2%). Using allele-specific primers, we found 13.8% of all samples (n = 164) used one major V(H)1-69 allele, designated 51p1, 163 of which were not somatically mutated. For these cases, there was marked restriction in the structure of the Ig third complementarity determining regions (CDR3s), which were encoded by a small number of unmutated D and J(H) gene segments. Strikingly, 15 of the 163 cases had virtually identical CDR3s encoded by the second reading frame of D3-16 and J(H)3. Further analysis revealed that each of these 15 samples used the same unmutated Ig kappa light-chain gene, namely A27. These data reveal that approximately 1.3% (15/1220) of all patients had leukemia cells that expressed virtually identical Ig. This finding provides compelling evidence that the Ig expressed by CLL B cells are highly selected and not representative of the Ig expressed by naive B cells.
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Collins AM, Sewell WA, Edwards MR. Immunoglobulin gene rearrangement, repertoire diversity, and the allergic response. Pharmacol Ther 2003; 100:157-70. [PMID: 14609718 DOI: 10.1016/j.pharmthera.2003.07.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The immunoglobulin repertoire arises as a consequence of combinatorial diversity, junctional diversity, and the process of somatic point mutation. Each of these processes involves biases that limit and shape the available immunoglobulin repertoire. The expressed repertoire is further shaped by selection, to the extent that biased gene usage can become apparent in many disease states. The study of rearranged immunoglobulin genes therefore may not only provide insights into the molecular processes involved in the generation of antibody diversity but also inform us of pathogenic processes and perhaps identify particular lymphocyte clones as therapeutic targets. Partly as a consequence of the low numbers of circulating IgE-committed B-cells, studies of rearranged IgE genes in allergic individuals have commenced relatively recently. In this review, recent advances in our understanding of the processes of immunoglobulin gene rearrangement and somatic point mutation are described, and biases inherent to these processes are discussed. The evidence that some diseases may be associated with particular gene rearrangements is then considered, with a particular focus on allergic disease. Reviewed data suggest that an important contribution to the IgE response may come from cells that use relatively rare heavy chain V (V(H)) segment genes, which display little somatic point mutation. Some IgE antibodies also seem to display polyreactive binding. In other contexts, these 3 characteristics have been associated with antibodies of the B-1 B-cell subset, and the possibility that B-1 B-cells contribute to the allergic response is therefore considered.
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- A M Collins
- School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, University of New South Wales, New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
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Zheng Z, Venkatapathy S, Rao G, Harrington CA. Expression profiling of B cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia suggests deficient CD1-mediated immunity, polarized cytokine response, altered adhesion and increased intracellular protein transport and processing of leukemic cells. Leukemia 2002; 16:2429-37. [PMID: 12454749 DOI: 10.1038/sj.leu.2402711] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/17/2002] [Accepted: 06/26/2002] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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We used oligonucleotide microarrays to profile the expression of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) B cells from eight patients compared with CD5-expressing normal B cells from four donors and with pooled normal circulating B cells. Of 6790 genes examined, we identified 87 genes that were differentially expressed at least two-fold between CLL and the normal B cells. CLL cells significantly down-regulated transcripts from CD1c and CD1d genes, which encode proteins known to present lipid antigen and mediate innate and adaptive immunity. The expression pattern was also consistent with reduced signaling by interferon gamma but increased response to interleukin 4 in leukemic cells. CLL cells increased the expression of several collagen-associated extracellular matrix and adhesion molecules, up-regulated many genes involved in intracellular protein transport and processing, while downregulating genes involved in proliferation and metabolism. Based on the expression pattern, we propose that CLL-B cells prolong their survival through increased interaction with survival factors such as IL-4, and through various mechanisms of evading the immune response, such as turning off the expression of CD1c and CD1d, reducing immunogenic response to interferon gamma, inactivating T cell in B-T interaction and increasing the expression of immunoglobulin receptors which neutralize antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity.
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MESH Headings
- Adult
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Antigens, CD1/genetics
- Antigens, CD1/immunology
- Antigens, CD1d
- B-Lymphocytes/metabolism
- Case-Control Studies
- Cell Adhesion/genetics
- Cytokines/genetics
- Extracellular Matrix Proteins/genetics
- Female
- Gene Expression Profiling
- Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic
- Glycoproteins/genetics
- Humans
- Immunity/genetics
- Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell/genetics
- Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell/immunology
- Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell/pathology
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Protein Transport/genetics
- RNA, Messenger/genetics
- Receptors, Immunologic/genetics
- Receptors, Interferon/genetics
- Receptors, Interleukin-4/genetics
- Interferon gamma Receptor
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- Z Zheng
- Division of Hematology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
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Ballon G, Trentin L, De Rossi A, Semenzato G. Telomerase activity and clinical progression in chronic lymphoproliferative disorders of B-cell lineage. Leuk Lymphoma 2001; 41:35-45. [PMID: 11342355 DOI: 10.3109/10428190109057952] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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The activation of telomerase, which specifically occurs in neoplastic cells to avoid telomere attrition at each cell division, is a necessary event in tumorigenesis. The evidence that telomerase is also present in normal B cells at different levels according to their differentiation and activation state makes the study of telomerase activity in B cell tumors particularly interesting. This review summarizes data concerning telomerase activity in chronic lymphoproliferative disorders of B-cell lineage (B-CLD), making suggestions regarding B-cell development and B-cell tumor histogenesis. The role of telomerase activity as a potential prognostic marker, as well as a target of new antineoplastic strategies is discussed.
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- G Ballon
- Department of Oncology and Surgical Sciences, Section of Oncology, University of Padova, via Gattamelata 64, 35128 Padova, Italy
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Widhopf GF, Kipps TJ. Normal B cells express 51p1-encoded Ig heavy chains that are distinct from those expressed by chronic lymphocytic leukemia B cells. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2001; 166:95-102. [PMID: 11123281 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.166.1.95] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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51p1 is an allele of V(H)1-69 that frequently is expressed by chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) B cells with little or no somatic mutation. The rearranged 51p1 genes expressed by CLL B cells have a distinctive use of D segments D3-3/DXP4 and D3-10/DXP'1, a favored use of J(H)6, and a longer third complementarity-determining region than the rearranged Ig genes used by CLL B cells that express V(H)1 genes other than V(H)1-69. We examined the 51p1-encoded Ig expressed by blood B cells of healthy donors. In contrast to the infrequent use of J(H)4 by 51p1-expressing CLL (e.g., 4%), 36% of the rearranged 51p1 sequences from normal blood B cells used J(H)4. Furthermore, the D segment use of the rearranged 51p1 sequences from normal blood B cells was not restricted, but reflected the D segment use of nonselected IgH of normal B cells. Finally, the mean length of the third complementarity-determining region for the 51p1 genes of normal blood B cells was 14.6 +/- 4.3 (SD) codons. This is significantly shorter than that noted for 51p1-expressing CLL B cells (18.8 +/- 3.2; p < 0.0001, n = 51). This study demonstrates that the 51p1-encoded IgH expressed in CLL are not representative of the 51p1-encoded IgH expressed by normal blood B cells, indicating that CLL B cells express IgH that are distinctive from those found in the normal adult blood B cell repertoire.
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MESH Headings
- Adult
- Amino Acid Sequence
- B-Lymphocytes/immunology
- B-Lymphocytes/metabolism
- B-Lymphocytes/pathology
- Base Sequence
- Complementarity Determining Regions/biosynthesis
- Complementarity Determining Regions/blood
- Complementarity Determining Regions/genetics
- Electrophoresis, Capillary
- Gene Expression Regulation, Neoplastic/immunology
- Gene Rearrangement, B-Lymphocyte, Heavy Chain
- Genes, Immunoglobulin
- Humans
- Immunoglobulin Heavy Chains/biosynthesis
- Immunoglobulin Heavy Chains/genetics
- Immunoglobulin Joining Region/biosynthesis
- Immunoglobulin Joining Region/genetics
- Immunoglobulin Variable Region/biosynthesis
- Immunoglobulin Variable Region/genetics
- Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell/genetics
- Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell/immunology
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Palatine Tonsil
- Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
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- G F Widhopf
- Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
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Sasso EH, Ghillani P, Musset L, Piette JC, Cacoub P. Effect of 51p1-related gene copy number (V1-69 locus) on production of hepatitis C-associated cryoglobulins. Clin Exp Immunol 2001; 123:88-93. [PMID: 11168003 PMCID: PMC1905958 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2249.2001.01406.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Monoclonal IgM in type II mixed cryoglobulins (MC) preferentially use 51p1-related immunoglobulin VH genes. In normal preimmune B lymphocytes, 51p1-related gene expression is proportional to the germ-line gene dosage, which can be 0-4. To determine whether 51p1-related gene dosage influences the occurrence of type II MC or the VH gene bias in cryoglobulin IgM, we studied 47 patients chronically infected with hepatitis C virus (HCV), 24 MC+, 23 MC-. By Western analysis, 11 cryoprecipitate IgM (46%) were detected by G6 (a marker for 51p1-related gene products), eight (33%) by Staphylococcal Protein A (a VH3 family marker), and five (21%) by neither, indicating a 23-fold bias favouring 51p1-related genes. All 11 MC+, G6+ patients possessed > or = 1 copy of a 51p1-related gene; nine of the 36 others had none. The mean copy number of 51p1-related genes was greater in MC+ than MC- patients, and in MC+, G6+ patients versus the 36 others (P < 0.04), but significant differences were not seen in analyses restricted to patients with > or = 1 copy of a 51p1-related gene. We conclude that when a 51p1-related gene is present, a strong bias favours G6+ IgM in HCV-associated type II MC, but this bias is not greatly increased by a high dosage of 51p1-related genes. Furthermore, patients lacking 51p1-related genes also produce MC, but with G6- IgM.
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- E H Sasso
- Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
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Expression of Ig-β (CD79b) by chronic lymphocytic leukemia B cells that lack immunoglobulin heavy-chain allelic exclusion. Blood 2000. [DOI: 10.1182/blood.v95.8.2725] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Because immunoglobulin (Ig)-β (CD79b) is required for immunoglobulin allelic exclusion, we examined the CD79b expressed by four chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) samples that expressed more than one immunoglobulin heavy-chain allele and five samples that had normal immunoglobulin heavy-chain allelic exclusion. All leukemia cell samples stained poorly with monoclonal antibodies specific for extracellular epitopes of CD79b. However, all samples expressed functional CD79b genes, regardless of whether they did or did not express more than one immunoglobulin heavy-chain allele. We identified variant CD79b genes that had conservative base substitutions restricted to regions encoding the extracellular immunoglobulin-like domain of CD79b. However, these variants were not restricted to samples lacking immunoglobulin heavy-chain allelic exclusion and most likely reflect genetic polymorphism. Collectively, these data indicate that the unusual expression of more than one immunoglobulin heavy allele by CLL B cells is not associated with structural, nonconservative mutations in the signal-transduction domains of CD79b.
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Expression of Ig-β (CD79b) by chronic lymphocytic leukemia B cells that lack immunoglobulin heavy-chain allelic exclusion. Blood 2000. [DOI: 10.1182/blood.v95.8.2725.008k27_2725_2727] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Because immunoglobulin (Ig)-β (CD79b) is required for immunoglobulin allelic exclusion, we examined the CD79b expressed by four chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) samples that expressed more than one immunoglobulin heavy-chain allele and five samples that had normal immunoglobulin heavy-chain allelic exclusion. All leukemia cell samples stained poorly with monoclonal antibodies specific for extracellular epitopes of CD79b. However, all samples expressed functional CD79b genes, regardless of whether they did or did not express more than one immunoglobulin heavy-chain allele. We identified variant CD79b genes that had conservative base substitutions restricted to regions encoding the extracellular immunoglobulin-like domain of CD79b. However, these variants were not restricted to samples lacking immunoglobulin heavy-chain allelic exclusion and most likely reflect genetic polymorphism. Collectively, these data indicate that the unusual expression of more than one immunoglobulin heavy allele by CLL B cells is not associated with structural, nonconservative mutations in the signal-transduction domains of CD79b.
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Caligaris-Cappio F. Biology of chronic lymphocytic leukemia. REVIEWS IN CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL HEMATOLOGY 2000; 4:5-21. [PMID: 11491097 DOI: 10.1046/j.1468-0734.2000.00001.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) lies at the cross-roads of hematology, immunology and oncology for at least three major reasons: (a) it is the prototype of human malignancies that primarily involve defects in the induction of apoptosis; (b) CLL patients develop a severe immunodeficiency with progressive hypogammaglobulinemia; and (c) they have a high prevalence of autoimmune phenomena. Recent advances in the biology of the malignant cell in CLL lead to a scenario comprised of two basic elements: first, CLL cells are optimally organized to survive in their niches because their ability to undergo apoptosis is severely hampered; second, they have a microenvironment-dependence that promotes their extended survival, a situation that arises most probably through direct cell-to-cell contacts. In addition, CLL cells themselves are the major accessory cells in CLL, but are inefficient antigen-presenting cells. This latter defect may provide a clue to reinterpret the events of immunodeficiency and autoimmunity.
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MESH Headings
- Antigen-Presenting Cells/pathology
- Apoptosis/drug effects
- Apoptosis/immunology
- Cell Transformation, Neoplastic/genetics
- Cell Transformation, Neoplastic/immunology
- Cell Transformation, Neoplastic/pathology
- Humans
- Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell/etiology
- Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell/immunology
- Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell/pathology
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- F Caligaris-Cappio
- Divisione Universitaria di Immunologia Clinica, Ospedale Mauriziano Umberto I, Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche e Oncologia Umana, Università di Torino, Torino, Italy
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Pospisil R, Silverman GJ, Marti GE, Aruffo A, Bowen MA, Mage RG. CD5 is A potential selecting ligand for B-cell surface immunoglobulin: a possible role in maintenance and selective expansion of normal and malignant B cells. Leuk Lymphoma 2000; 36:353-65. [PMID: 10674908 DOI: 10.3109/10428190009148857] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Although the function of CD5 on B cells is unknown, previous studies suggested that CD5 interaction with V(H) framework regions of surface immunoglobulins (Igs) may contribute to survival and expansion of B cells. Here we used B-chronic lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL) cells and transformed B-cell lines from normal and B-CLL patients to study CD5-Ig interactions. Immobilized Ig binds and permits isolation of CD5 from lysates of CD5-expressing cell lines. Immunoglobulins or Fab fragments of different V(H) families varied in their effectiveness as inhibitors of anti-CD5 staining of CLL cells, appendix and tonsil tissue sections. Human Ig also binds to purified recombinant CD5. We show here for the first time that the unconventional Ig-CD5 interaction maps to the extracellular CD5-D2 domain whereas conventional epitopes recognized by anti-CD5 antibodies are localized in the D1 domain of CD5. We propose that interactions of VH framework regions with CD5 as a ligand may maintain, select or expand normal, autoimmune or transformed B cells and also contribute to skewing of the normal V(H) repertoire.
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- R Pospisil
- Laboratory of Immunology, NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
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Baranzini SE, Jeong MC, Butunoi C, Murray RS, Bernard CCA, Oksenberg JR. B Cell Repertoire Diversity and Clonal Expansion in Multiple Sclerosis Brain Lesions. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 1999. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.163.9.5133] [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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Multiple sclerosis (MS) lesions in the CNS are characterized by disseminated demyelination with perivascular infiltrates of macrophages, T cells, and B cells. To investigate the origin and characteristics of the B cell population found in MS plaque tissue, we performed molecular studies in 10 MS patients and 4 non-MS control samples. Ig transcripts from the perivascular infiltrated brain lesions were analyzed by complementary-determining region 3 spectratyping to ascertain the B cell heavy chain gene rearrangement repertoire expressed in MS brains. Significant rearrangement diversity and deviation from the normal Ig heavy (H) chain repertoire was observed. The cloning and sequencing of RT-PCR products from families VH1 and VH4 showed a correlation with the profiles obtained by spectratyping. Generally, restricted spectratyping patterns concurred with repetition of in-frame complementary-determining region 3 identical sequences. The analysis of heavy chain variable (VH), diversity (D), and joining (JH) gene segments revealed the increased usage of VH1–69, VH4–34, and VH4–39. Similarly, gene segments from families D2, D3, and JH4 were over-represented. The presence of restricted patterns of rearranged Ig mRNA within the plaque lesion suggests that Ab production in the demyelinating plaque is a local phenomenon and supports the idea that in MS an Ag-driven immune response might be responsible for demyelination.
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- Sergio E. Baranzini
- *Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143; and
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- *Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143; and
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- †Rocky Mountain Multiple Sclerosis Center, Englewood, CO 80110
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- *Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143; and
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- *Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143; and
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Söderberg O, Thunberg U, Weigelt C, Christiansen I, Tötterman TH, Carlsson M, Sällström J, Nilsson K. Staphylococcus aureus Cowan strain 1 activation of B-chronic lymphocytic leukaemia cells augments the response to CD40 stimulation. Scand J Immunol 1999; 50:363-70. [PMID: 10520175 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3083.1999.00604.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The signals involved in regulating the proliferation, differentiation and survival of B-chronic lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL) cells are fully understood. B-CLL cells have been found to respond poorly to various activation signals and only after successful Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) transformation has it been possible to maintain such cells in long-term cultures. In this work we describe a new method to activate and induce proliferation in B-CLL cells and to maintain such cells in long-term culture for longer than 1 month. We used a combination of protocols in an attempt to mimic some of the signals of a thymus-dependent immune response. The B-CLL cells were first activated with Staphylococcus aureus Cowan strain 1 (SAC) particles plus thioredoxin (Trx), followed by stimulation with interleukin (IL)-2 + Trx. This treatment primed the cells for further stimulation with anti-CD40 monoclonal antibody (MoAb) presented on irradiated CD32L cells (the CD40-system) or soluble CD40 Ligand, and a combination of Trx and cytokines (IL-4 + IL-10), which allowed the cells to be maintained for up to 1 month with preserved viability and a variable rate of proliferation. However, induced proliferation of the B-CLL cells was limited to approximately 1 month, suggesting that additional signals are required to facilitate further proliferation.
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- O Söderberg
- Instituto de Patologia e Imunologia Molecular da Universidade do Porto (IPATIMUP), Porto, Portugal
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Yumoto N, Kurosu K, Furukawa M, Mikata A. CDR3 sequences of MALT lymphoma show homology with those of autoreactive B-cell lines. Jpn J Cancer Res 1999; 90:849-57. [PMID: 10543257 PMCID: PMC5926153 DOI: 10.1111/j.1349-7006.1999.tb00826.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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We have examined the CDR3 sequence and adjacent regions of immunoglobulin genes from B-cell lymphoma of mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT). Twenty-nine sequences (15 sequences from 13 low-grade MALT lymphomas, marginal zone B-cell lymphomas; 7 sequences from 6 high-grade MALT lymphomas; 7 sequences from 7 diffuse large cell lymphomas) were obtained after cloning of the polymerase chain reaction-amplified segments. In the low-grade MALT, high-grade MALT and diffuse large cell lymphomas, the mean length of the CDR3 region was 47.6+/-10.31 (range 21 to 60), 38.71+/-10.37 (range 27 to 57) and 40.86+/-3.34 (range 39 to 48) nucleotides, respectively. The length of the CDR3 region was significantly greater in the low-grade MALT lymphoma group than in the other two groups. CDR3 sequences in lymphoma cell clones of 14 cases showed 60 to 81% homology with autoantibody-associated lymphocyte clones including rheumatoid factor. The incidences of these autoantibody-associated lymphocyte clones were higher in the high-grade MALT (4/6) and diffuse large lymphomas (5/7) than in the low-grade MALT lymphoma (5/13). Cases with more than 70% homology at the nucleotide level were found to have 71 to 82% homology with autoantibodies at the protein level in the low-grade MALT lymphomas (2/13), and 67% homology in the high-grade MALT lymphomas (2/7). These results indicate that MALT lymphomas may be derived from the malignant transformation of autoreactive B-cells.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Autoimmunity/genetics
- Base Sequence
- Clone Cells
- Complementarity Determining Regions
- Gene Rearrangement, B-Lymphocyte, Heavy Chain/genetics
- Genes, Immunoglobulin/genetics
- Humans
- Immunoglobulin Variable Region/genetics
- Lymphoma, B-Cell/genetics
- Lymphoma, B-Cell/immunology
- Lymphoma, B-Cell, Marginal Zone/genetics
- Lymphoma, B-Cell, Marginal Zone/immunology
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid
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- N Yumoto
- First Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba City.
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Gahn B, Wendenburg B, Troff C, Neef J, Grove D, Haferlach T, Hiddemann W, Wörmann B. Analysis of progenitor cell involvement in B-CLL by simultaneous immunophenotypic and genotypic analysis at the single cell level. Br J Haematol 1999; 105:955-9. [PMID: 10554806 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2141.1999.01471.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (B-CLL) results from the clonal expansion of mature B lymphocytes. The detection of leukaemia-associated genetic markers in CD34-positive progenitor cells in a subset of B-CLL patients suggests that malignant transformation in B-CLL occurs in an immature progenitor cell compartment. To further quantify the percentage of B-CLL patients with genetically aberrant progenitor cells we have investigated CD34+ bone marrow cells in 11 B-CLL patients at the single cell level by simultaneous genetic and immunophenotypic analysis (FICTION). In five patients with trisomy 12, CD34+ haemopoietic progenitor cells were detectable on bone marrow smears. In one patient with trisomy 12, CD34+ progenitor cells were isolated by FACS sorting. In all six patients trisomy 12 was not found in the CD34+ cells. Progenitor cells were also analysed in three patients with Rb-deletion and in two patients with deletion of p53. In all patients the genetic marker was not detected in the CD34+ cells. In conclusion, we did not find genetically aberrant progenitor cells in this group of B-CLL patients. These results suggest that the subset of B-CLL patients with genetically aberrant CD34+ cells may be very small. This is of significance for our understanding of B-CLL biology and for future strategies using autologous stem cell transplantation.
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MESH Headings
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Antigens, CD34
- Chromosomes, Human, Pair 12/genetics
- Female
- Humans
- Immunophenotyping
- In Situ Hybridization, Fluorescence
- Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell/genetics
- Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell/pathology
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Neoplastic Stem Cells/pathology
- Trisomy
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- B Gahn
- Department of Haematology and Oncology, University of Göttingen, Germany
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Caligaris-Cappio F, Hamblin TJ. B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia: a bird of a different feather. J Clin Oncol 1999; 17:399-408. [PMID: 10458259 DOI: 10.1200/jco.1999.17.1.399] [Citation(s) in RCA: 308] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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PURPOSE To review the recent major advances in the molecular and cell biology of B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL). METHODS We analyzed the nature of malignant B-CLL B cells and their interactions with the microenvironment. RESULTS B-CLL is a malignancy of a mantle zone-based subpopulation of anergic, self-reactive, activated CD5+ B cells devoted to the production of polyreactive natural autoantibodies. It is the quintessential example of a human malignancy that primarily involves defects in the induction of programmed cell death. An abnormal karyotype is observed in about 50% of patients with B-CLL. Patients with 13q14 abnormalities show heavy somatic mutation and have a benign disease. Trisomy 12 is associated with unmutated VH genes, atypical cellular morphology, and progressive disease. Extended cell survival is further shielded by a kinetic refractoriness likely promoted by abnormalities of the B-cell antigen receptor complex and favored by some cytokines that highlight a reciprocal dialog between malignant B and T cells. Because the tumor cells act as the major accessory cells, the accumulating malignant B-cell population per se is a hurdle to the production of normal antibodies and leads to a progressive and severe hypogammaglobulinemia. Conceivably, in the presence of certain immunoglobulin genes and when the T-cell control becomes deficient, activated malignant B cells may become able to present self-antigens and drive residual normal B cells to produce polyclonal autoantibodies restricted to self-antigens expressed only by blood cells and cause autoimmune cytopenias. CONCLUSION The distinctiveness of B-CLL B cells explains why B-CLL is different from other B-cell tumors and accounts for the development of immune deficiency and autoimmunity.
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- F Caligaris-Cappio
- Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche e Oncologia Umana, Università di Torino, Ospedale Mauriziano Umberto I, Italy.
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Söderberg O. Growth and survival of B-chronic lymphocytic leukaemia cells. Med Oncol 1998; 15:73-8. [PMID: 9789213 DOI: 10.1007/bf02989583] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/1998] [Accepted: 03/12/1998] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Although chronic lymphocytic leukaemia of B cell type (B-CLL) is the most common form of leukaemia in the Western world, several questions about the biology of B-CLL remain to be clarified. To obtain a conceptual model for B-CLL, defined as a relentless accumulation of resting B-CLL cells, it is particularly relevant to ask which cell type is the normal counterpart of B-CLL; what is the site of proliferation; which signals are involved in the recruitment and induction of proliferation and which signals contribute to the survival of the B-CLL cells? The significance of the studies on B-CLL cells in vitro for the interpretation of the in vivo situation may be questioned since they oversimplify the multiple and complex cellular interactions that occur in vivo. However, the in vitro studies have been instrumental in elucidating signals that may regulate growth, differentiation and survival of B-CLL cells. This knowledge, herein reviewed, can be used to put forward a hypothesis on B-CLL cell regulation in vivo.
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- O Söderberg
- Institute for Molecular Pathology and Immunology, University of Porto, Portugal.
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Brezinschek HP, Brezinschek RI, Dörner T, Lipsky PE. Similar characteristics of the CDR3 of V(H)1-69/DP-10 rearrangements in normal human peripheral blood and chronic lymphocytic leukaemia B cells. Br J Haematol 1998; 102:516-21. [PMID: 9695967 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2141.1998.00787.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The variable heavy chain (V(H)) gene segment V(H)1-69/DP-10 has been shown to be over-represented in B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL). Because of certain similar characteristics of their complementarity determining region 3 (CDR3), including preferential utilization of J(H)6 elements and an extended length, it has been suggested that antigenic stimulation might be involved in leukaemogenesis. Utilizing single-cell PCR to amplify and sequence genomic DNA from individual normal human peripheral blood B cells, we have obtained 7/421 productively and 1/69 nonproductively rearranged V(H) genes that used V(H)1-69/DP-10. All productive rearrangements were unmutated, used J(H)6 and had an average CDR3 length similar to that previously found in V(H)1-69/DP-10-expressing CLL cells. These results suggest that CLL may arise from B cells commonly found in the peripheral B-cell repertoire and do not represent expansion of a unique subset of specific antigen-reactive B cells.
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- H P Brezinschek
- Department of Internal Medicine and Harold C. Simmons Arthritis Research Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, 75235, USA
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Huang SC, Jiang R, Hufnagle WO, Furst DE, Wilske KR, Milner EC. VH usage and somatic hypermutation in peripheral blood B cells of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Clin Exp Immunol 1998; 112:516-27. [PMID: 9649224 PMCID: PMC1904985 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2249.1998.00580.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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The human antibody repertoire has been demonstrated to have a marked V-gene-dependent bias that is conserved between individuals. In RA patients, certain heavy chain V genes (VH) have been found to be preferentially used for encoding autoantibodies. To determine if such preferential use of VH genes in autoantibodies is associated with a general distortion of the V gene repertoire in RA patients, the VH composition of peripheral blood B cells was analysed among four RA patients and four age- and sex-matched healthy controls. Usage of individual VH genes (eight VH3 and three VH4 genes tested by hybridization with a set of gene-specific oligonucleotide probes) was highly biased among RA patients, but no evidence of a distortion in the bias was observed compared with healthy controls. However, the occurrence of somatic mutations in these VH genes (estimated by differential hybridization with motif-specific oligonucleotide probes targeted to CDR and FR of the tested genes, and by DNA sequence analysis) was strikingly different between patients and healthy subjects. The number of VH3 rearrangements that had accumulated somatic mutations and the number of mutations per rearrangement were significantly elevated in three of the four RA patients. A slight but not significant elevation in mutations among rearranged VH4 genes was also observed in these patients. These data suggest that although usage of individual VH genes among peripheral blood B cells is not affected by the disease, the autoimmune process may involve a significant fraction of the B cell compartment.
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- S C Huang
- Department of Immunology, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
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Efremov DG, Ivanovski M, Burrone OR. The pathologic significance of the immunoglobulins expressed by chronic lymphocytic leukemia B-cells in the development of autoimmune hemolytic anemia. Leuk Lymphoma 1998; 28:285-93. [PMID: 9517500 DOI: 10.3109/10428199809092684] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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The increased number of CD5+ B-cells in some human autoimmune diseases, the frequent commitment of CD5+ B-cells to the production of natural autoantibodies, and the apparent involvement of these cells in the pathogenesis of the autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA) in certain mouse models suggests a causal relationship between the CD5+ chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) B-cell and the AIHA which frequently develops in this malignant disorder. In support of this conclusion is our recent finding that the VH region gene repertoire of the leukemic B-cells from CLL patients with AIHA is rather biased and characterised by the over-representation of the 51p1 VH gene. On the other hand, it appears relatively certain that the pathogenic anti-erythrocyte antibodies in CLL patients with AIHA are produced by remnant normal B-cells, and that the antibodies expressed by the leukemic CD5+ B-cells do not directly bind red blood cells (RBC). Of interest, the antibodies produced by the leukemic B-cells from CLL patients with AIHA might have in common rheumatoid factor (RF) activity. These data indicate that the antibodies produced by the leukemic B-cells from CLL patients with AIHA are not directly involved in red blood cell destruction, but may be involved in the induction or amplification of a polyclonal anti-RBC response. Finally, we discuss the possible clinical implications of our finding that CLL patients with leukemic cells expressing the 51p1 VH gene may be at a higher risk to develop autoimmune hemolytic anemia.
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MESH Headings
- Anemia, Hemolytic, Autoimmune/etiology
- Anemia, Hemolytic, Autoimmune/immunology
- Anemia, Hemolytic, Autoimmune/pathology
- Animals
- B-Lymphocytes/immunology
- B-Lymphocytes/pathology
- Disease Models, Animal
- Humans
- Immunoglobulin Heavy Chains/genetics
- Immunoglobulin Variable Region/genetics
- Immunoglobulins/biosynthesis
- Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell/complications
- Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell/immunology
- Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell/pathology
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- D G Efremov
- International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Trieste, Italy
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Lehmann D, Karussis D, Mizrachi-Koll R, Linde AS, Abramsky O. Inhibition of the progression of multiple sclerosis by linomide is associated with upregulation of CD4+/CD45RA+ cells and downregulation of CD4+/CD45RO+ cells. CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY AND IMMUNOPATHOLOGY 1997; 85:202-9. [PMID: 9344704 DOI: 10.1006/clin.1997.4444] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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In a recent double-blind, phase II study, conducted in our department, we showed that Linomide-treated MS patients had significantly less active lesions (in serial monthly MRI tests) and a tendency for clinical stabilization. Here we present the immunological evaluation of the patients who participated in this study and propose a novel mechanism by which Linomide downregulates autoreactivity. Peripheral blood leukocytes (PBLs), serum, and CSF samples were obtained at two to four time points over the 6 months of the trial. Flow cytometric analysis (FACS) of the CD5/CD19, CD4/CD8, CD14/CD3, CD16/CD3, CD45RA/CD4, and CD45RO/CD4 surface markers on PBLs was performed and the levels of the IL-1beta, IL-2, IL-4, IL-6, IL-10, TNF-alpha, IFN-gamma, and IL-2R were also examined. White blood counts of Linomide-treated patients were consistently elevated throughout the treatment period (P = 0.002-0.04). Cytokines levels in serum and CSF were highly fluctuating and we could not detect any clear trend as a result of Linomide treatment. FACS analysis showed that Linomide treatment significantly increased the percentage of the CD4+/CD45RA+ cells (from 35.5% at baseline to 42.3% at week 24; P = 0.02), and decreased CD4+/CD45RO+ lymphocytes (62.6% at baseline vs 53.7% at week 24, P = 0.02). Linomide also induced a transient increase in the NK-cells, the NK 1.1 cells, and the CD5 B-cells (P = 0.02). Upregulation of naive CD45RA T-lymphocytes and parallel downregulation of memory CD45RO cells seems to be one of the main mechanisms by which Linomide inhibits MS activity and may represent an alternative immunomodulating approach for the treatment of MS and autoimmunity in general.
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- D Lehmann
- Department of Neurology and Laboratory of Neuroimmunology, Hadassah-Hebrew University Hospital, Jerusalem, IL-91120, Israel
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Detection of Trisomy 12 and Rb-Deletion in CD34+ Cells of Patients With B-Cell Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia. Blood 1997. [DOI: 10.1182/blood.v89.12.4275] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL) is a slowly progressive disease characterized by the clonal expansion of CD5+/CD23+ B lymphocytes. The malignant transformation is assumed to occur at the level of mature B lymphocytes. We asked whether CD34+ progenitor cells are involved in the malignant process in B-CLL. Furthermore, we investigated the possibility of aberrant CD34 expression by the malignant B-cell clone. Bone marrow and peripheral blood samples from 75 patients with B-CLL were tested for the presence of trisomy 12 and deletion of the retinoblastoma gene (Rb) by fluorescence in situ hybridization. CD34+ subpopulations were isolated by fluorescence-activated cell sorting and analyzed for the presence of the informative genetic marker. Bone marrow and peripheral blood samples of 10 B-CLL patients were analyzed for coexpression of CD34/CD5/CD20. Trisomy 12 was detected in 15 of 75 (20%) and Rb-deletion was detected in 6 of 30 patients (20%). In 7 patients with trisomy 12, hematopoietic progenitor cells were sorted, with the sort purity being between 85% and 99.8%. The genetic marker was detected in the CD34+/CD38+ cells as well as in the CD34+/38− subsets in 3 patients. Progenitor cells were also sorted in 2 patients with Rb-deletion. In 1 patient, Rb-deletion was present in 10% of CD34+/38+ cells. In the other patient, Rb-deletion was neither detected in the CD34+/38+ nor in the CD34+/CD38− subsets. In all 10 patients investigated for coexpression of CD34/CD5/CD20, we could not find a subpopulation coexpressing these markers. We conclude that trisomy 12 and Rb-deletion are present in a considerable subset of patients with B-CLL. In part of these patients, the genetic marker was detected at the level of CD34+ stem cells. CD34 expression is not related to an aberrant phenotype of the malignant B-cell clone. These results suggest that the malignant transformation in B-CLL may involve early hematopoietic stem cells and place a note of caution on future strategies using autologous stem cell transplantation.
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Brezinschek HP, Foster SJ, Brezinschek RI, Dörner T, Domiati-Saad R, Lipsky PE. Analysis of the human VH gene repertoire. Differential effects of selection and somatic hypermutation on human peripheral CD5(+)/IgM+ and CD5(-)/IgM+ B cells. J Clin Invest 1997; 99:2488-501. [PMID: 9153293 PMCID: PMC508090 DOI: 10.1172/jci119433] [Citation(s) in RCA: 279] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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To analyze the immunoglobulin repertoire of human IgM+ B cells and the CD5(+) and CD5(-) subsets, individual CD19(+)/ IgM+/CD5(+) or CD5(-) B cells were sorted and non-productive as well as productive VH gene rearrangements were amplified from genomic DNA and sequenced. In both subsets, the VH3 family was overrepresented largely as a result of preferential usage of a small number of specific individual family members. In the CD5(+) B cell subset, all other VH families were found at a frequency expected from random usage, whereas in the CD5(-) population, VH4 appeared to be overrepresented in the nonproductive repertoire, and also negatively selected since it was found significantly less often in the productive compared to the nonproductive repertoire; the VH1 family was significantly diminished in the productive rearrangements of CD5(-) B cells. 3-23/DP-47 was the most frequently used VH gene segment and was found significantly more often than expected from random usage in productive rearrangements of both CD5(+) and CD5(-) B cells. Evidence for selection based on the D segment and the JH gene usage was noted in CD5(+) B cells. No differences were found between the B cell subsets in CDR3 length, the number of N-nucleotides or evidence of exonuclease activity. Somatically hypermutated VHDJH rearrangements were significantly more frequent and extensive in CD5(-) compared to CD5(+) IgM+ B cells, indicating that IgM+ memory B cells were more frequent in the CD5(-) B cell population. Of note, the frequency of specific VH genes in the mutated population differed from that in the nonmutated population, suggesting that antigen stimulation imposed additional biases on the repertoire of IgM+ B cells. These results indicate that the expressed repertoire of IgM+ B cell subsets is shaped by recombinational bias, as well as selection before and after antigen exposure. Moreover, the influences on the repertoires of CD5(+) and CD5(-) B cells are significantly different, suggesting that human peripheral blood CD5(+) and CD5(-) B cells represent different B cell lineages, with similarities to murine B-1a and B-2 subsets, respectively.
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- H P Brezinschek
- Department of Internal Medicine and Harold C. Simmons Arthritis Research Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas 75235, USA
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Salivary gland mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) type lymphomas are typically indolent B-cell neoplasms that are often associated with Sjogren's syndrome. To better define the cell of origin and evaluate whether antigen receptor stimulation may be playing a role in tumor growth, the Ig heavy and light chain variable genes (VH and VL) expressed by five salivary gland MALT lymphomas were cloned and sequenced. Comparison to known germline sequences indicated that three of the lymphoma VH genes were derived from 51p1, a member of the VH1 family, while the other two used different VH gene segments from the VH3 family, 22-2B and HG19. All five of the VL genes belonged to the VkIII family, with three derived from Humkv325 and the other two from the Vg and Humkv328 genes. Numerous point mutations relative to the proposed germline genes were present in all of the lymphoma VH and VL genes. In addition, the VH and VL genes from each lymphoma showed intraclonal sequence heterogeneity indicative of ongoing somatic hypermutation. Because the process of Ig gene hypermutation is thought to occur at the germinal center stage of B-cell development, these findings suggest the MALT lymphoma cell of origin may be a germinal center B cell. Selection against mutations that result in replacement of amino acids suggested that Ig stimulation may be important for lymphoma growth. The possibility that antigen receptor stimulation may be involved in the growth of salivary gland MALT lymphomas is further suggested by the noted restricted use of VH and VL gene segments.
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Sasso EH, Johnson T, Kipps TJ. Expression of an Ig VH gene, 51p1, is proportional to its germline gene copy number. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1997; 815:478-80. [PMID: 9186703 DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1997.tb52108.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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- E H Sasso
- Division of Rheumatology, University of Washington, Seattle 98105, USA
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Efremov DG, Ivanovski M, Pozzato G, Batista FD, Burrone OR. The leukemic cells of chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients with autoimmune hemolytic anemia produce isotype-switched immunoglobulins that are preferentially encoded by the 51p1 and DP-50 VH genes. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1997; 815:443-7. [PMID: 9186693 DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1997.tb52098.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
MESH Headings
- Anemia, Hemolytic, Autoimmune/immunology
- Anemia, Hemolytic, Autoimmune/pathology
- Animals
- Base Sequence
- Gene Rearrangement, T-Lymphocyte
- Immunoglobulin Switch Region/immunology
- Immunoglobulin Variable Region/immunology
- Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell/immunology
- Leukemia, Lymphocytic, Chronic, B-Cell/pathology
- Mice
- Molecular Sequence Data
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- D G Efremov
- International Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Trieste, Italy
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Chronicity and destructive potential are characteristic features of the inflammatory response in the synovial membrane typical for RA. The dominant paradigm has proposed that an exogenous antigen, likely an infectious organism, targets the synovia and elicits a chronic immune response. Support for this disease model has come from describing the cellular components of the inflammatory lesions, which are composed of macrophages, T cells, and B cells. The observation that HLA molecules function by specifically binding antigenic peptides and presenting them to T cells has boosted the concept of an antigen-driven response. The last decade in RA research has been dominated by a shift from premolecular to molecular techniques. A major effort has been made to determine which cytokines and inflammatory mediators are produced at the site of disease. Tissue residing and infiltrating cells secrete proinflammatory cytokines in situ, which likely have a critical role in amplifying and maintaining the inflammation. We are beginning to understand that migration of inflammatory cells into the tissue is an important component of disease, specifically because adhesion molecules not only facilitate tissue infiltration, but also affect cell activation and cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions. The paradigm that RA is an antigen-driven and thus T cell-mediated disease has brought attempts to use T cell-depleting reagents as therapeutics. Although T cells could be eliminated in the peripheral blood, overall therapeutic benefits have been minimal and accompanied by major side effects. The lack of therapeutic efficacy has been demonstrated to be combined with the persistence and the selective proliferation of T cells in the joint, reemphasizing the role of tissue-infiltrating T cells in the disease. Studies of the composition of the T cell infiltrate have demonstrated heterogeneity, indicating that disease-relevant T cells are probably low in frequency. A new perspective on the role of T cells in RA has been opened by studies establishing that RA patients select a unique repertoire of T cells in the thymus and that clonal expansion of CD4 T cells is a frequent event in RA patients. Pathology of T cell function might be much more systemic than suspected so far. RFs remain the major autoantibodies in RA patients. In the last 10 years, it has become clear that they are not exclusively built under pathologic conditions but that RF-expressing B cells are an important element of normal immune responses. All immunoglobulin isotypes are represented among RF molecules. Some of them have accumulated somatic mutations, suggesting the influence of antigen recognition and T cell help. T cell control of RF production may explain the observation that RF positivity is an HLA-dependent phenomenon. Major progress in understanding pathologic events leading to RA can be expected by abandoning single hit models, which are too simplified and underestimate the complexity of the disease. In particular, taking into account that nonimmune tissues and mechanisms might be equally important in pathogenesis will open new avenues of conceptual approaches. Cross-fertilization will likely come from genetic studies aimed at detecting underlying genetic risk factors in common genetic disease. Emerging data indicate that several genetic risk determinants, each of which is nonpathologic if occurring alone, can add up to confer disease risk. One of these genetic elements in RA has been mapped to the HLA region. A sequence polymorphism in the HLA-DR B1 gene appears to be a strong genetic risk factor in several ethnic groups. Correlation of clinical presentation of RA and the inheritance of the RA risk gene suggests that the gene product is not necessary in disease initiation but functions by modulating disease pattern and severity. The next decade in RA research will be dedicated toward unraveling how genetic determinants can introduce pathology (e.g., how HLA genes can function as progre
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- C M Weyand
- Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
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Agnello V. The etiology and pathophysiology of mixed cryoglobulinemia secondary to hepatitis C virus infection. SPRINGER SEMINARS IN IMMUNOPATHOLOGY 1997; 19:111-29. [PMID: 9266635 DOI: 10.1007/bf00945029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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The strong association of HCV infection with MC-II and the selective concentration of the virus with the WA mRF in the cryoglobulins are compelling suggestions that the virus is directly involved in production of the mRF and the pathophysiology of MC-II. There is, however, only limited data on HCV involvement in both processes. In cutaneous vasculitis, which is the most prevalent clinical feature of the disease, there is evidence that complexes of HCV, mRF and IgG are formed in situ from components of the cryoglobulins that are present in the blood in a dissociated state. It is postulated that local factors, cooling and stasis predispose to formation of these lesions in the lower limbs. However, since cutaneous vasculitis does not correlate with cryoglobulin levels and may not be induced by cold challenge, other factors may be involved. In particular, the conditions which activate the vascular endothelial cells, leading to the leukocytoclastic vasculitis, require delineation. In contrast to cutaneous vasculitis, HCV RNA has not been prominently detected in immune complexes in MPGN lesions and has not been detected at all in the peripheral neuropathy lesions. These preliminary observations suggest that different pathophysiological processes are involved in for these lesions than in cutaneous vasculitis. From the correlation of remission of disease with decreased cryoglobulinemia and viremia in treated patients with MC-II, and from immunohistological data on the hepatitic lymphoid follicles in MC-II (see chapter 7), it appears that an antigen-driven benign proliferation of B cells is responsible for production off mRF and cryoglobulinemia. New findings have suggested that one mechanism for developing mixed cryoglobulinemia may be that HCV-VLDL complexes that contain apo E2 are poorly endocytosed by the LDLR, which may be a major route of entry of the virus to the cell; persistence of the complexes in the circulation may then stimulate mRF production. This new hypothesis is based only on initial in vitro observations and require independent confirmation and validation in vivo. From indirect clinical evidence it has also been postulated that mRF in some patients may limit the cytopathology in MC-II, resulting in a lower prevalence of cirrhosis in these patients. These findings suggested another hypothesis, which is that the mRF prevents spread of infection to hepatocytes and other permissive and nonpermissive cells by blocking endocytosis of HCV-VLDL complexes by the LDLR. Furthermore, data on the composition of cryoglobulins, the molecular composition of WA mRF and the characterization of monoclonal B cells in the liver of patients with MC-II (see chapter 7) suggest that a specific population of B cells may be involved in the host response to HCV infection. These are B cells that proliferate with little or no somatic mutations of the immunoglobulin genes, are self-replicating, are stimulated by self antigens in a T cell-independent manner and bear the CD5 marker. The proliferation of this B cell population may be the host's response to the attempt by the virus to circumvent the immune response by complexing with host lipoproteins. It is proposed that HCV complexed to VLDL is the antigen that directly stimulates the proliferation of these primordial type B cells. Testing of these hypotheses may produce insights not only into the etiology of mixed cryoglobulinemia but possibly into the mechanisms by which HCV circumvents the immune response and established chronic infection.
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- V Agnello
- Lahey Hitchcock Clinic, Burlington, MA 01805, USA
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Dighiero G, Kipps T, Schroeder HW, Chiorazzi N, Stevenson F, Silberstein LE, Caligaris-Cappio F, Ferrarini M. What is the CLL B-lymphocyte? Leuk Lymphoma 1996; 22 Suppl 2:13-39. [PMID: 9021706 DOI: 10.3109/10428199609102700] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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He X, Zhong W, McCarthy TG, Weyand CM, Goronzy JJ. Increased responsiveness of rheumatoid factor-producing B cells in seronegative and seropositive rheumatoid arthritis. ARTHRITIS AND RHEUMATISM 1996; 39:1499-506. [PMID: 8814061 DOI: 10.1002/art.1780390909] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To compare the frequencies and responsiveness of rheumatoid factor (RF)-producing B cells in the peripheral blood of patients with seronegative and seropositive rheumatoid arthritis (RA). METHODS Frequencies of IgM+, IgG+, and RF+ B cells were determined by limiting-dilution analysis of purified peripheral blood B cells from 6 patients with seropositive RA, 8 patients with seronegative RA, and 7 normal controls. B cell help was provided by cloned T helper cells, which were stimulated by either anti-CD3 or the bacterial superantigen staphylococcal enterotoxin D (SED). IgM and IgG antibodies and RF in culture supernatants were detected by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. RESULTS In the presence of anti-CD3-stimulated T helper cells, 2-10% of B cells from normal individuals secreted IgM and IgG antibodies. The frequency of RF+ B cells was low and ranged from 1:182 to 1:885 (RF+: IgM+) B cells. In patients with seropositive RA, the numbers of Ig-producing B cells were reduced by a factor of 2, while the fraction of RF+ B cell precursors was expanded by more than 50-fold (7-20% of IgM+ B cells; P = 0.004). Patients with seronegative RA had higher frequencies of RF-producing B cells (1.5-6% of IgM+ B cells) than normal individuals (P = 0.002), but not to the same extent as seropositive patients (P = 0.002). Stimulation of B cells using SED preferentially induced RF+ B cells in normal controls and in patients with seronegative and seropositive RA. CONCLUSION B cell precursors with the potential to secrete RF were detectable in high frequencies in normal individuals and in patients with seropositive and seronegative RA. In all donors, these B cells could be stimulated with the bacterial superantigen SED. In normal individuals, RF+ B cells remained nonresponsive to help provided by anti-CD3-activated T cells, but were responsive in RA patients. Seronegative and seropositive RA form a continuous spectrum of disease, with a higher number of RF-secreting B cells in the seropositive patients.
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- X He
- Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
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Dono M, Zupo S, Augliera A, Burgio VL, Massara R, Melagrana A, Costa M, Grossi CE, Chiorazzi N, Ferrarini M. Subepithelial B cells in the human palatine tonsil. II. Functional characterization. Eur J Immunol 1996; 26:2043-9. [PMID: 8814244 DOI: 10.1002/eji.1830260912] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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This study investigates the main functional features of subepithelial (SE) B cells and compares them with those of purified germinal center (GC) and follicular mantle (FM) B cells isolated from the same tonsils. Unlike FM B cells, SE B cells failed to produce polyspecific antibodies in vitro; unlike GC B cells, SE B cells expressed high levels of Bcl-2 and failed to undergo spontaneous apoptosis in vitro. The most striking function of SE B cells was their ability to produce IgM antibodies to T cell-independent type-2 (TI-2) (but not to TI-1) antigens (Ag). These antibodies could not be detected when both FM and GC B cells were stimulated with TI-2 Ag in vitro. Moreover, B cells isolated from peripheral blood were unable to mount a response to TI-2 Ag. The latter finding is consistent with the observation that B cells with the phenotypic features of SE B cells were virtually absent in the peripheral blood and emphasizes the notion that SE B cells belong to a subset of non-recirculating B cells. SE B cells were by far superior to FM B cells in mixed lymphocyte reaction (MLR) stimulation of allogeneic T cells in vitro, although they were not as efficient as dendritic cells (DC). In order to stimulate T cells efficiently, SE B cells had to be exposed to anti-mu antibody, a treatment which induced expression of activation markers such as CD80, CD86, CD69 and CD39, usually absent in resting SE B cells. CD80 and CD86 molecules expressed by SE B cells participated in the chain of events required to promote the proliferation of allogeneic T cells as demonstrated by inhibition tests with the appropriate mAb. The expression of CD80 and CD86 by anti-mu-treated SE B cells was not, however, the sole explanation for their good antigen presenting capacities since the exposure of FM B cells to anti-mu antibody also induced expression of these surface structures. Nevertheless, these cells failed to become good MLR stimulators. Collectively, the above data contribute further to the characterization of a distinct subset of tonsillar B cells which resemble, both phenotypically and functionally, the B cells of the splenic marginal zone.
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- M Dono
- Servizio di Immunologia Clinica, Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro, Genova, Italy.
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Sasso EH, Johnson T, Kipps TJ. Expression of the immunoglobulin VH gene 51p1 is proportional to its germline gene copy number. J Clin Invest 1996; 97:2074-80. [PMID: 8621797 PMCID: PMC507282 DOI: 10.1172/jci118644] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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51p1 is an immunoglobulin VH gene that is frequently expressed in B cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia and early in B cell ontogeny. The 51p1 gene locus is highly polymorphic, consisting of 13 alleles that can be classified as being either 51p1-related or hy1263-related, based on distinctive sequence motifs in the second complementarity determining region. Two of the 51p1-related genes usually occur as a linked pair on the same haopltype, resulting from gene duplication. Consequently, a person can have a total of zero to four copies of 51p1-related genes. These genes are detectable in genomic DNA by sequence-specific RFLP analysis using oligonucleotide probes. Ig encoded by nonmutated 51p1-related genes can be detected by G6, a murine antiidiotypic mAb. We have now studied lymphocytes from 35 human tonsils to examine the relation between the number of 51p1-related germlime gene copies and the proportion of IgD-bearing tonsillar B cells that react with G6. All subjects who had zero copies of 51p1-related genes lacked any G6-reactive B cells, whereas those with four copies of 51p1-related genes had the highest proportions of G6-positive IgD B cells, up to 11.4%. Subjects with intermediate gene doses had intermediate proportions of G6-reactive B cells. Over the entire data set, the percentage of IgD-bearing B cells that reacted with G6 was proportional to the 51p1-related gene copy number (r = 0.92, p < 0.001), with each copy accounting for 2.4-4.0% of the IgD-bearing B cells. We conclude that 51p1-related genes are expressed by a relatively large percentage of IgD+ tonsillar B cells and this percentage is proportional to the germline copy number of 51p1-related genes.
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- E H Sasso
- Division of Rheumatology, University of Washington, Seattle 98105, USA
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He X, Goronzy JJ, Zhong W, Xie C, Weyand CM. VH3-21 B cells escape from a state of tolerance in rheumatoid arthritis and secrete rheumatoid factor. Mol Med 1995; 1:768-80. [PMID: 8612199 PMCID: PMC2230015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Rheumatoid factor (RF) is a characteristic but not pathognomic feature in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). It is unknown whether the repertoire of immunoglobulin genes utilized by RF+ B cells of RA patients is unique and whether RF+ B cells in normal individuals are silenced or deleted. MATERIALS AND METHODS Clonal B cell populations were established from the peripheral blood of normal donors (127 B cell clones), RA patients (113 RF- and 60 RF+ B cell clones) and patients with primary Sjögren's syndrome (82 RF- and 47 RF+ B cell clones) by coculturing with anti-CD3-stimulated T helper cell clones. The cross-reactivity pattern of antibodies secreted by the B cell clones was determined by ELISA on a panel of antigens. The molecular structure of the IgM heavy chains was characterized by VH family-specific RT-PCR and sequencing. VH elements which correlated with RF specificity were identified. The responsiveness of B cells expressing these VH elements to T helper cell signals was compared in normal individuals and RA patients. RESULTS The majority of RF+ B cells were monospecific when specificity was tested on five antigens. RF+ B cells expressed a significantly different repertoire of VH gene segments than RF- B cells. In particular, the VH3 gene segment V3-21 was not detected in B cell clones from normals but was the most frequent VH element in RF+ B cell clones from RA patients. Most of the V3-21 sequences were in germline configuration. The correlation between RF specificity and V3-21 gene segment usage was maintained in patients with Sjögren's syndrome. V3-21 transcripts were present in peripheral blood B cells from normal individuals. VH3-21+ B cells from RA patients but not from normal donors were responsive to preactivated T helper cells. Stimulation with a bacterial superantigen could overcome the nonresponsiveness of V3-21+ B cells in normal donors and induce the secretion of RF. CONCLUSIONS RF production is correlated with the usage of the V3-21 gene segment in two distinct RF+ diseases. In patients with these diseases, V3-21+ B cells secrete antibodies with RF activity in response to activated T helper cells. V3-21+ B cells remain in a state of nonresponsiveness in normal individuals that can be broken by superantigen stimulation. The germline configuration of VH3-21+ RF+ immunoglobulins in RA patients suggests that the loss of tolerance is not an antigen-driven process.
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- X He
- Department of Medicine, Mayo Clinic and Foundation, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
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He X, Goronzy JJ, Zhong W, Xie C, Weyand CM. VH3-21 B Cells Escape from a State of Tolerance in Rheumatoid Arthritis and Secrete Rheumatoid Factor. Mol Med 1995. [DOI: 10.1007/bf03401891] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022] Open
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Rassenti LZ, Kohsaka H, Kipps TJ. Analysis of immunoglobulin VH gene repertoire by an anchored PCR-ELISA. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1995; 764:463-73. [PMID: 7486567 DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1995.tb55866.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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We developed a novel technique to analyze the relative concentration of the expressed immunoglobulin (Ig) VH genes using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Expressed Ig cDNA are amplified via anchored PCR and then subjected to a "nested PCR" reaction that attaches biotin to the 5' end of the antisense strand. This allows us to tether the antisense strand of PCR products onto avidin-coated ELISA plates. Digoxigenin-labeled oligonucleotides specific for the leader sequence sense strand of each major Ig VH gene subgroup are used to probe the plate-tethered, alkaline-denatured, and single-stranded antisense cDNA. Bound probes then are detected with alkaline-phosphatase-conjugated anti-digoxigenin antibodies. Using this method, we assessed the distribution of Ig VH genes used by IgM-expressing blood B cells of normal adults. We found the predominant subgroup is VH3, representing approximately half (range 41-59%) of the expressed IgM repertoire. The next largest subgroups used are VH4 (19-23%), VH1 (15-17%), and VH5 (7-11%). The VH2, VH6, and VH7 subgroups each constitute less than 3% of the expressed IgM repertoire. These results agree with those obtained using traditional and more laborious methods that analyze the distribution of Ig clones in cDNA libraries. In addition, we find that this method compares favorably in sensitivity and specificity to more conventional techniques for assessing the clonality of blood or tissue B-cell populations. This rapid and nonradioactive method should have utility for assessing the Ig repertoires expressed by normal, autoimmune, or neoplastic B-cell populations.
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- L Z Rassenti
- Sam & Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093, USA
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Vencovsky J, Mageed RA, Ollier WE, Maini RN. Monozygotic rheumatoid arthritis twin pairs express similar levels of conserved immunoglobulin V gene in polyclonal rheumatoid factors irrespective of disease status. Scand J Immunol 1995; 42:147-57. [PMID: 7631137 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3083.1995.tb03638.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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The degree of polyclonal RF heterogeneity was assessed in diseased and non-diseased twins with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). The distribution of variable region determinants encoded by a set of immunoglobulin germline, or minimally mutated germline, genes within IgM RF, IgG RF and IgA RF isotypes was determined by ELISA using specific mouse monoclonal antibodies (MoAb) in fractionated plasma from 12 members of six monozygotic twin pairs with RA. The results reveal that at least 40% (range approximately 18-87%) of IgM RF are encoded by a small set of approximately 10 genes from the VH1, 3 and 4 families. Furthermore, a significant proportion of IgG RF and IgA RF (approximately 30%) are also encoded by these same genes. Comparison with RF-negative fractions of immunoglobulins showed that the examined variable region determinants were overrepresented in the RF fractions. The level of expression of the variable region determinants in RF were generally similar within twins but different between unrelated twin pairs irrespective of disease status. The variability of VH gene usage between unrelated individuals suggests that the level of expression and regulation of the variable region determinants may be genetically regulated or influenced by common environmental factors.
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- J Vencovsky
- Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, Hammersmith, London, UK
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Galibert L, van Dooren J, Durand I, Rousset F, Jefferis R, Banchereau J, Lebecque S. Anti-CD40 plus interleukin-4-activated human naive B cell lines express unmutated immunoglobulin genes with intraclonal heavy chain isotype variability. Eur J Immunol 1995; 25:733-7. [PMID: 7535701 DOI: 10.1002/eji.1830250316] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Combination of anti-CD40 antibody and interleukin-4 (IL-4) induces B cell clonal expansion reminiscent of the T-dependent proliferation following antigenic challenge in vivo. We have analyzed the usage of CH genes and the presence or absence of somatic mutations within the progeny of a single human naive B cell activated with anti-CD40 + IL-4. To address this issue, single-cell cultures of naive (sIgD+) tonsillar B lymphocytes expressing the VH1-restricted G8 idiotype were set up. After culture and RNA extraction, VH1+ Ig mRNA were reverse-transcribed, amplified by polymerase chain reaction and sequenced. A single sIgD+ B cell could generate clones expressing mu, gamma 1, gamma 3, or epsilon, illustrating that the progeny of a single cell can express different isotypes in response to the same stimulus in vitro. The rate of somatic mutations affecting the immunoglobulin variable heavy chain gene was indistinguishable from the background of errors introduced by Taq polymerase.
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- L Galibert
- Schering-Plough Laboratory for Immunological Research, Dardilly, France
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Parr TB, Johnson TA, Silberstein LE, Kipps TJ. Anti-B cell autoantibodies encoded by VH 4-21 genes in human fetal spleen do not require in vivo somatic selection. Eur J Immunol 1994; 24:2941-9. [PMID: 7805720 DOI: 10.1002/eji.1830241204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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We isolated immunoglobulin (Ig) VH4 genes that were rearranged in the genomic DNA of 160 day human fetal spleen. Productively rearranged VH 4-21 genes were cloned into pRTM1, a human IgM expression vector. This allowed us to generate IgM kappa-expressing transfectomas by co-transfecting each of these constructs with pSVG-V kappa 3, an Ig kappa light-chain expression vector that has a variable region encoded Humkv325, a conserved V kappa gene that is frequently expressed early B cell ontogeny. We find that all transfectomas expressing IgM kappa encoded by VH 4-21 make IgM autoantibodies reactive with i, a linear poly-N-acetyllactosamine determinant present on neonatal red blood cells and a B cell-restricted isoform of the CD45 surface molecule. In contrast, a transfectoma expressing pSVG-V kappa 3 and pRTM1 containing a rearranged VH4-59 (V71-4) gene isolated from a chronic lymphocytic leukemia B cell population, designated WIL, produced IgM kappa antibodies that had no detectable anti-i binding activity. However, transfectomas expressing VH 4-21 fused onto the Ig heavy-chain third complementarity determining region (CDR3) of WIL are found to make anti-B cell autoantibodies with anti-i activity. These studies indicate that VH 4-21 genes rearranged in human fetal B cell ontogeny can encode anti-B cell autoantibodies with a binding specificity that does not require in vivo somatic selection.
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- T B Parr
- Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093-0663
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Schroeder HW, Dighiero G. The pathogenesis of chronic lymphocytic leukemia: analysis of the antibody repertoire. IMMUNOLOGY TODAY 1994; 15:288-94. [PMID: 7520700 DOI: 10.1016/0167-5699(94)90009-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 253] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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CD5+ B cells predominate early in ontogeny and have been associated with autoantibody production. In chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), B lymphocytes express CD5 and frequently produce autoantibodies using developmentally regulated variable (V)-gene segments. Does the self-reactivity observed in CLL reflect transformation of a 'fetal' lineage of cells, or could overexpansion of these B cells occur as a consequence of antigen stimulation? Harry Schroeder and Guillermo Dighiero have reviewed the literature describing antibody sequences in CLL and have compared them with the 'fetal' repertoire. This analysis indicates that CLL cells use a repertoire characteristic of mature cells, and suggests that antigen may play a role in the pathogenesis of this disease.
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- H W Schroeder
- Dept of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham 35294
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Weber JC, Blaison G, Martin T, Knapp AM, Pasquali JL. Evidence that the V kappa III gene usage is nonstochastic in both adult and newborn peripheral B cells and that peripheral CD5+ adult B cells are oligoclonal. J Clin Invest 1994; 93:2093-105. [PMID: 7514192 PMCID: PMC294334 DOI: 10.1172/jci117204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023] Open
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There is evidence that in certain situations the expressed antibody repertoire is dominated by small subsets of V gene segments. They include fetal, CD5+, and autoantibody-forming B cells as well as low grade B cell malignancies. For instance, inside the V kappa III family of approximately 10 members, only 3 (humkv325, 328, and Vg) are used recurrently for autoantibody production. However, the significance of this recurrence is difficult to interpret without a clear vision of the actual repertoire in normal subjects. To address this, we have sequenced and compared two sets of rearranged V kappa III genes generated by cDNA PCR amplification from a normal newborn, a normal adult, and from CD5+ B cells of the same adult donor. The results show that: (a) only four V kappa III gene segments are used by neonatal and total adult B cells (humkv325, humkv328, Vg, and kv305), humkv325 being overexpressed in both repertoires; (b) there is no significant difference in terms of V kappa III gene usage between the adult and newborn repertoires; (c) regarding the junction regions, there is a favored use of the most 5' JK gene segments (Jk1-Jk2); approximately 20% of the newborn and adult junction sequences was characterized by one or two additional codons, most probably resulting from a nontemplate addition of nucleotides; (d) adult clones, in contrast to most newborn clones, show sequence divergences from prototype sequences with patterns which suggest antigen-driven diversity; (e) regarding the adult CD5+ B cell library, it is most probable that the 78 clones analyzed derived from no more than nine different VK-JK rearrangements. Humkv325 is used by at least six of them, and most of the expressed V genes were in exact or very near germline configuration. Collectively these results suggest that the expressed antibody V kappa III repertoire in the adult represents only a fraction of the potential genetic information and that it resembles the preimmune repertoire of the neonate. The data, which also suggest that the adult peripheral blood CD5+ B cell population may be dominated by a small number of B cell clones, are discussed with regards to the V kappa III usage in pathological situations.
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- J C Weber
- Laboratoire d'Immunopathologie, Hôpital Central, Hôpitaux Universitaires, Strasbourg, France
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Garzelli C, Incaprera M, Bazzichi A, Manunta M, Rognini F, Falcone G. Epstein-Barr virus-transformed human B lymphocytes produce natural antibodies to histones. Immunol Lett 1994; 39:277-82. [PMID: 7518420 DOI: 10.1016/0165-2478(94)90169-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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To study the mechanism(s) responsible for the appearance of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-induced anti-histone autoantibodies, peripheral blood B lymphocytes from healthy donors were infected with EBV and the resulting lymphoblastoid cell lines were tested for secretion of antibodies reacting with histones. It was found that EBV-transformed cells produce IgM antibody reactive with histones and that the frequency of EBV-inducible circulating B lymphocytes that produce antibodies to histones is at least 10(-5). Moreover, in cultures of tonsillar lymphoid cells, the enrichment in CD5+ B lymphocytes increases the percentage of EBV-transformed cultures making anti-histone IgM antibodies. EBV may therefore, also in vivo, induce natural anti-histone antibody by polyclonal B-cell activation without any requirement of antigen to trigger antibody response.
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- C Garzelli
- Department of Biomedicine, University of Pisa, Italy
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Schena M, Gottardi D, Ghia P, Larsson LG, Carlsson M, Nilsson K, Caligaris-Cappio F. The role of Bcl-2 in the pathogenesis of B chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Leuk Lymphoma 1993; 11:173-9. [PMID: 8260892 DOI: 10.3109/10428199309086993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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At least three categories of genes are envisaged to be involved in the natural history of B-CLL. First, the genes that are responsible for the transforming event(s) in the (presently unknown) target cell; second, the gene(s) that help the progressive accumulation of malignant cells and finally the gene(s) that cause the progression toward a more aggressive lymphoma. The possibility that the clonal expansion of B-CLL is due to a prolonged life-span of monoclonal B cells rather than to an acceleration of their proliferative activity may now be reinterpreted by taking into account some recent findings on the expression of Bcl-2 gene in B-CLL cells. The Bcl-2 gene product regulates programmed cell death and a number of experiments suggest that Bcl-2 is involved in the selection and maintenance of long-lived memory B cells rescuing them from apoptotic death and leading to their accumulation in the GO phase of the cell cycle. Variant chromosomal translocations have been detected in a small fraction (5-10%) of B-CLL, involving Bcl-2 and the Ig light chain gene. Despite the low percentage of Bcl-2 rearrangements the expression of mRNA and protein is appreciable in most samples of fresh B-CLL cells in an amount comparable to that observed in Karpas 422 cells, which contain a t(14;18).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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- M Schena
- Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche e Oncologia Umana, Università di Torino, Italy
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Mariette X, Brouet JC, Danon F, Tsapis A, Lassoued K. Nucleotide sequence analysis of the VL and VH domains of five human IgM directed to lamin B. Evidence for an antigen-driven process in the generation of human autoantibodies to lamin B. ARTHRITIS AND RHEUMATISM 1993; 36:1315-24. [PMID: 8216425 DOI: 10.1002/art.1780360916] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To gain insight into the genetic origin of human antilamin autoantibodies, we determined the nucleotide sequence of the light and heavy chain variable region (VL and VH) domains of 5 IgM antibodies directed to lamin B. These antibodies represent a distinct subset of antinuclear antibodies, and their presence is associated with a particular lupus-like syndrome. METHODS We derived and cloned lymphoblastoid cell lines from peripheral blood B cells of 3 patients, selected anti-lamin B-producing subclones, and sequenced the messenger RNA coding for Ig heavy and light chains. RESULTS We isolated 2 subclones (1 IgM kappa, 1 IgM lambda) from one patient (FUR) and 2 subclones (both IgM lambda) from another (HER). In contrast, all 8 lines derived from B cells isolated from the third patient (BEN) synthesized identical anti-lamin B IgM kappa antibodies: All VL and VH domains from these 5 IgM were encoded by different VL or VH genes. DH regions were all different, and there was no restriction in the use of JL or JH segments. Analysis of the nucleotide sequence of the VL domains allowed the identification of the putative germinal gene in 3 instances (V kappa IV, Humkv325, and V lambda III.1); the overall ratios of replacement:silent mutations (R:S) were 6.5 and 1.2 in the complementarity-determining regions (CDRs) and framework regions (FRs), respectively. The 2 other lambda sequences belonged to the V lambda III family. With regard to VH domains, 3 of 5 derived from previously identified germline genes (VHIV 4.19, VHIV 4.22, and VHIII 9.1); the overall R:S ratio for these genes was 8 and 1.5 in CDRs and FRs, respectively. CONCLUSION Taken together, these data provide evidence that the repertoire of human antilamin autoantibodies is not restricted and that the antigen (or another kind of selective pressure) plays a role in the generation of autoantibodies to lamin B. This hypothesis is in accordance with the reactivity of these antibodies to discrete epitopes of lamin B.
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- X Mariette
- Laboratory of Immunopathology, Hôpital Saint-Louis, Paris, France
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He X, Goronzy JJ, Weyand CM. The repertoire of rheumatoid factor-producing B cells in normal subjects and patients with rheumatoid arthritis. ARTHRITIS AND RHEUMATISM 1993; 36:1061-9. [PMID: 8343183 DOI: 10.1002/art.1780360806] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To compare the B cell repertoire of normal individuals and patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and, specifically, to identify precursor B cells with the potential to secrete rheumatoid factor (RF) and to understand the T helper cell requirements for the production of this autoantibody. METHODS Frequencies of precursors of IgM-, IgG-, and RF-producing B cells were measured in a limiting-dilution system. Two distinct sources of T cell help were compared. T cell help was provided by anti-CD3-activated CD4+ human T cell clones, or T cell-B cell interaction was facilitated by the bacterial super-antigen staphylococcal enterotoxin D (SED). RESULTS A subset of 2-14% of peripheral blood B cells secreted IgM and IgG in SED-driven cultures. The SED-responsive B cell subpopulation was present at 10 times higher frequency in normal donors compared with RA patients. However, the repertoires were very similar, particularly for RF+ precursors, which represented approximately one-third of all SED-responsive B cells. In normal individuals, most of these RF+ precursor B cells did not respond to anti-CD3-activated T helper cells, with only a very small fraction of B cells activated by anti-CD3-driven helper cells maturing into RF-secreting B cells (from 1 of 182 to 1 of 889 IgM-producing B cells). This subset was expanded approximately 50-fold in RA patients. CONCLUSION Normal subjects and RA patients share a pool of B cells which secrete RF when activated in the presence of SED and T helper cells. These B cells are frequent and obviously anergic in normal individuals. The B cell subset with the potential to produce RF when help is provided in noncognate T-B interaction (anti-CD3-driven T cells) is considerably expanded in RA patients, probably reflecting an increased responsiveness of such B cells to helper signals.
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- X He
- Division of Rheumatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota 55905
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