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Epstein-Barr virus-infected B cells expanding in germinal centers of infectious mononucleosis patients do not participate in the germinal center reaction.


ABSTRACT: To assess the impact of the germinal center (GC) reaction on viral spread in Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection, we isolated EBV(+) GC B cells from the tonsils of two infectious mononucleosis patients, sequenced their rearranged V genes, and determined expression of the EBV latency genes EBV nuclear antigen 2 and latent membrane protein 1. Most EBV(+) GC B cells belonged to clones of cells harboring somatically mutated V gene rearrangements. Ongoing somatic hypermutation, the hallmark of the GC reaction, was seen only in uninfected GC B cell clones, not in EBV(+) B cell clones. Thus, in infectious mononucleosis, GC and/or memory B cells are directly infected by EBV and expand without somatic hypermutation, whereas the GC passage of EBV-infected naive B cells does not contribute detectably to the generation of infected memory B cells, the main reservoir of EBV during persistence. Most, if not all, EBV-infected cells in GCs exhibited an unusual EBV gene expression pattern in that they were positive for EBV nuclear antigen 2 but negative for latent membrane protein 1. Although the three main types of EBV-associated B cell lymphomas (Burkitt's, Hodgkin's, and posttransplant lymphomas) presumably are derived from GC B cells, EBV(+) GC B cells resembling these EBV(+) GC B cell lymphomas in terms of EBV gene expression and somatic hypermutation pattern could not be identified.

SUBMITTER: Kurth J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC153624 | biostudies-literature | 2003 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Epstein-Barr virus-infected B cells expanding in germinal centers of infectious mononucleosis patients do not participate in the germinal center reaction.

Kurth Julia J   Hansmann Martin-Leo ML   Rajewsky Klaus K   Küppers Ralf R  

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20030328 8


To assess the impact of the germinal center (GC) reaction on viral spread in Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection, we isolated EBV(+) GC B cells from the tonsils of two infectious mononucleosis patients, sequenced their rearranged V genes, and determined expression of the EBV latency genes EBV nuclear antigen 2 and latent membrane protein 1. Most EBV(+) GC B cells belonged to clones of cells harboring somatically mutated V gene rearrangements. Ongoing somatic hypermutation, the hallmark of the GC  ...[more]

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