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SWAP-70 deficiency causes high-affinity plasma cell generation despite impaired germinal center formation.


ABSTRACT: Germinal centers (GCs) are lymphoid tissue structures central to the generation of long-lived, high-affinity, antibody-forming B cells. However, induction, maintenance, and regulation of GCs are not sufficiently understood. The F-actin-binding, Rac-interacting protein SWAP-70 is strongly expressed in activated B cells like those in B follicles. Recent work suggests that SWAP-70 is involved in B-cell activation, migration, and homing. Therefore, we investigated the role of SWAP-70 in the T-dependent immune response, in GC formation, and in differentiation into plasma and memory B cells. Compared with wt, sheep red blood cell (SRBC)-, or NP-KLH-immunized SWAP-70(-/-) mice have strongly reduced numbers of GCs and GC-specific B cells. However, SWAP-70(-/-) NP-specific B cells accumulate outside of the B follicles, and SWAP-70(-/-) mice show more plasma cells in the red pulp and in the bone marrow, and increased NP-specific Ig and antibody-forming B cells. Yet the memory response is impaired. Thus, SWAP-70 deficiency uncouples GC formation from T-dependent antibody and long-lived plasma cell production and causes extrafollicular generation of high-affinity plasma cells, but does not adequately support the memory response.

SUBMITTER: Quemeneur L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2254552 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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SWAP-70 deficiency causes high-affinity plasma cell generation despite impaired germinal center formation.

Quemeneur Laurence L   Angeli Veronique V   Chopin Michael M   Jessberger Rolf R  

Blood 20071219 5


Germinal centers (GCs) are lymphoid tissue structures central to the generation of long-lived, high-affinity, antibody-forming B cells. However, induction, maintenance, and regulation of GCs are not sufficiently understood. The F-actin-binding, Rac-interacting protein SWAP-70 is strongly expressed in activated B cells like those in B follicles. Recent work suggests that SWAP-70 is involved in B-cell activation, migration, and homing. Therefore, we investigated the role of SWAP-70 in the T-depend  ...[more]

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