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DC-SIGN binding to mannosylated B-cell receptors in follicular lymphoma down-modulates receptor signaling capacity.


ABSTRACT: In follicular lymphoma (FL), surface immunoglobulin (sIg) carries mandatory N-glycosylation sites in the variable regions, inserted during somatic hypermutation. These glycosylation sites are tumor-specific, indicating a critical function in FL. Added glycan unexpectedly terminates at high mannose (Mann) and confers capability for sIg-mediated interaction with local macrophage-expressed DC-SIGN lectin resulting in low-level activation of upstream B-cell receptor signaling responses. Here we show that despite being of low-level, DC-SIGN induces a similar downstream transcriptional response to anti-IgM in primary FL cells, characterized by activation of pathways associated with B-cell survival, proliferation and cell-cell communication. Lectin binding was also able to engage post-transcriptional receptor cross-talk pathways since, like anti-IgM, DC-SIGN down-modulated cell surface expression of CXCR4. Importantly, pre-exposure of a FL-derived cell line expressing sIgM-Mann or primary FL cells to DC-SIGN, which does not block anti-IgM binding, reversibly paralyzed the subsequent Ca2+ response to anti-IgM. These novel findings indicate that modulation of sIg function occurs in FL via lectin binding to acquired mannoses. The B-cell receptor alternative engagement described here provides two advantages to lymphoma cells: (i) activation of signaling, which, albeit of low-level, is sufficient to trigger canonical lymphoma-promoting responses, and (ii) protection from exogenous antigen by paralyzing anti-IgM-induced signaling. Blockade of this alternative engagement could offer a new therapeutic strategy.

SUBMITTER: Valle-Argos B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8175722 | biostudies-literature |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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