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SUBMITTER: Morrison VL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3745606 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Morrison Vicky L VL Barr Tom A TA Brown Sheila S Gray David D
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 20100726 5
B cells recognize Ags on microorganisms both with their BCRs and TLRs. This innate recognition has the potential to alter the behavior of whole populations of B cells. We show in this study that in culture and in mice, MyD88-dependent activation of B cells via TLR2 or TLR9 causes the rapid loss of expression of CD62L by metalloproteinase-dependent shedding. Adoptive transfer of in vitro CpG-activated B cells showed them to be excluded from lymph nodes and Peyer's patches, but not the spleen. In ...[more]