Deletion of IgG-switched autoreactive B cells and defects in Fas(lpr) lupus mice.

ABSTRACT: During a T cell-dependent Ab response, B cells undergo Ab class switching and V region hypermutation, with the latter process potentially rendering previously innocuous B cells autoreactive. Class switching and hypermutation are temporally and anatomically linked with both processes dependent on the enzyme, activation-induced deaminase, and occurring principally, but not exclusively, in germinal centers. To understand tolerance regulation at this stage, we generated a new transgenic mouse model expressing a membrane-tethered gamma2a-reactive superantigen (gamma2a-macroself Ag) and assessed the fate of emerging IgG2a-expressing B cells that have, following class switch, acquired self-reactivity of the Ag receptor to the macroself-Ag. In normal mice, self-reactive IgG2a-switched B cells were

SUBMITTER: Ait-Azzouzene D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3641794 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature