Light chain editing in kappa-deficient animals: a potential mechanism of B cell tolerance.

Light chain editing in kappa-deficient animals: a potential mechanism of B cell tolerance

The genetic organization of the kappa and lambda light chain loci permits multiple, successive rearrangement attempts at each allele. Multiple rearrangements allow autoreactive B cells to escape clonal deletion by editing their surface receptors. Editing may also facilitate efficient B cell production by salvaging cells with nonproductive light chain (L chain) rearrangements. To study receptor ...

Receptor editing as a mechanism of B cell tolerance.

Ig light chain receptor editing in anergic B cells.

Receptor editing in the bone marrow (BM) serves to modify the Ag receptor specificity of immature self-reactive B cells, while anergy functionally silences self-reactive clones. Here, we demonstrate that anergic B cells in hen egg lysozyme Ig (HEL-Ig)/soluble HEL double transgenic mice show evidence of having undergone receptor editing in vivo, as demonstrated by the presence of elevated levels...

Stimulation of kappa light-chain gene rearrangement by the immunoglobulin mu heavy chain in a pre-B-cell line.

B-lymphocyte development exhibits a characteristic order of immunoglobulin gene rearrangements. Previous work has led to the hypothesis that expression of the immunoglobulin mu heavy chain induces rearrangement activity at the kappa light-chain locus. To examine this issue in more detail, we isolated five matched pairs of mu- and endogenously rearranged mu+ cell lines from the Abelson murine le...

Development and characterization of polyclonal antibody against human kappa light chain in rabbit

Polyclonal antibodies against kappa light chain are used to diagnose diseases producing free light chain. The kappa and lambda light chains are products of immunoglobulin synthesis and released into the circulation in minor amounts such as serum, cerebrospinal fluid, urine and synovial fluid in normal condition. The purpose of this study was the production and purification of polyclonal immunog...