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Dynamic regulation of B cell complement signaling is integral to germinal center responses.


ABSTRACT: Maturation of B cells within germinal centers (GCs) generates diversified B cell pools and high-affinity B cell antigen receptors (BCRs) for pathogen clearance. Increased receptor affinity is achieved by iterative cycles of T cell-dependent, affinity-based B cell positive selection and clonal expansion by mechanisms hitherto incompletely understood. Here we found that, as part of a physiologic program, GC B cells repressed expression of decay-accelerating factor (DAF/CD55) and other complement C3 convertase regulators via BCL6, but increased the expression of C5b-9 inhibitor CD59. These changes permitted C3 cleavage on GC B cell surfaces without the formation of membrane attack complex and activated C3a- and C5a-receptor signals required for positive selection. Genetic disruption of this pathway in antigen-activated B cells by conditional transgenic DAF overexpression or deletion of C3a and C5a receptors limited the activation of mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) in response to BCR-CD40 signaling, causing premature GC collapse and impaired affinity maturation. These results reveal that coordinated shifts in complement regulation within the GC provide crucial signals underlying GC B cell positive selection.

SUBMITTER: Cumpelik A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8297556 | biostudies-literature |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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