Heavy chain revision in MRL mice: a potential mechanism for the development of autoreactive B cell precursors.
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چکیده
Abs reactive to DNA and DNA/histone complexes are distinguished by the presence of positively charged amino acids, such as arginine, in the heavy chain complementarity-determining region 3. The presence of these amino acids partly results from atypical V(H)-D-J(H) rearrangements such as D-D fusions and D inversions. Previous results in our laboratory demonstrated that newborn autoimmune MRL/MpJ-+/+ mice undergo these unusual recombinations more frequently when compared with normal C3H/HeJ controls. In addition, the heavy chain junctions in newborn MRL mice demonstrated a preferred usage of V(H)-proximal D genes and distal J(H) genes suggestive of secondary gene rearrangements. In this study we explore the possibility that adult MRL B220(+)IgM(-) pre B cells, which have not yet undergone Ag selection, exhibit similar rearrangement patterns. Indeed, MRL pre-B cells possessed more atypical rearrangements (D-D fusions) than those of C3H/HeJ mice. However, the biased use of upstream D genes and downstream J(H) genes observed in the newborn MRL mice was not present in the pre-B cell library. These results suggest that the heavy chain rearrangement process persists later during B cell life in lupus-prone mice and lead us to propose a model of heavy chain receptor revision in the periphery of autoimmune mice.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of immunology
دوره 165 8 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2000