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Protein Amounts of the MYC Transcription Factor Determine Germinal Center B Cell Division Capacity.


ABSTRACT: High-affinity B cell selection in the germinal center (GC) is governed by signals delivered by follicular helper T (Tfh) cells to B cells. Selected B cells undergo clonal expansion and affinity maturation in the GC dark zone in direct proportion to the amount of antigen they capture and present to Tfh cells in the light zone. Here, we examined the mechanisms whereby Tfh cells program the number of GC B cell divisions. Gene expression analysis revealed that Tfh cells induce Myc expression in light-zone B cells in direct proportion to antigen capture. Conditional Myc haplo-insufficiency or overexpression combined with cell division tracking showed that MYC expression produces a metabolic reservoir in selected light-zone B cells that is proportional to the number of cell divisions in the dark zone. Thus, MYC constitutes the GC B cell division timer that when deregulated leads to emergence of B cell lymphoma.

SUBMITTER: Finkin S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6703930 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Protein Amounts of the MYC Transcription Factor Determine Germinal Center B Cell Division Capacity.

Finkin Shlomo S   Hartweger Harald H   Oliveira Thiago Y TY   Kara Ervin E EE   Nussenzweig Michel C MC  

Immunity 20190723 2


High-affinity B cell selection in the germinal center (GC) is governed by signals delivered by follicular helper T (Tfh) cells to B cells. Selected B cells undergo clonal expansion and affinity maturation in the GC dark zone in direct proportion to the amount of antigen they capture and present to Tfh cells in the light zone. Here, we examined the mechanisms whereby Tfh cells program the number of GC B cell divisions. Gene expression analysis revealed that Tfh cells induce Myc expression in ligh  ...[more]

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