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B cell antigen presentation is sufficient to drive neuroinflammation in an animal model of multiple sclerosis.


ABSTRACT: B cells are increasingly regarded as integral to the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis, in part as a result of the success of B cell-depletion therapy. Multiple B cell-dependent mechanisms contributing to inflammatory demyelination of the CNS have been explored using experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), a CD4 T cell-dependent animal model for multiple sclerosis. Although B cell Ag presentation was suggested to regulate CNS inflammation during EAE, direct evidence that B cells can independently support Ag-specific autoimmune responses by CD4 T cells in EAE is lacking. Using a newly developed murine model of in vivo conditional expression of MHC class II, we reported previously that encephalitogenic CD4 T cells are incapable of inducing EAE when B cells are the sole APC. In this study, we find that B cells cooperate with dendritic cells to enhance EAE severity resulting from myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein (MOG) immunization. Further, increasing the precursor frequency of MOG-specific B cells, but not the addition of soluble MOG-specific Ab, is sufficient to drive EAE in mice expressing MHCII by B cells alone. These data support a model in which expansion of Ag-specific B cells during CNS autoimmunity amplifies cognate interactions between B and CD4 T cells and have the capacity to independently drive neuroinflammation at later stages of disease.

SUBMITTER: Parker Harp CR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4433779 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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B cell antigen presentation is sufficient to drive neuroinflammation in an animal model of multiple sclerosis.

Parker Harp Chelsea R CR   Archambault Angela S AS   Sim Julia J   Ferris Stephen T ST   Mikesell Robert J RJ   Koni Pandelakis A PA   Shimoda Michiko M   Linington Christopher C   Russell John H JH   Wu Gregory F GF  

Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 20150420 11


B cells are increasingly regarded as integral to the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis, in part as a result of the success of B cell-depletion therapy. Multiple B cell-dependent mechanisms contributing to inflammatory demyelination of the CNS have been explored using experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), a CD4 T cell-dependent animal model for multiple sclerosis. Although B cell Ag presentation was suggested to regulate CNS inflammation during EAE, direct evidence that B cells can in  ...[more]

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