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The Lupus Susceptibility Locus Sle1 Facilitates the Peripheral Development and Selection of Anti-DNA B Cells through Impaired Receptor Editing

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Chang, Soog-Hee; Kim, Tae-Joo; Kim, Young-Joo; Liu, Yang; Min, So-Youn; Park, Min-Jung; Park, Hyun-Sil; Lee, Sun-Kyung; Nam, Ki-Hoan; Kim, Ho-Youn; Mohan, Chandra; Kim, Hang-Rae

Issue Date
2014-06
Publisher
American Association of Immunologists
Citation
Journal of Immunology, Vol.192 No.12, pp.5579-5585
Abstract
Systemic lupus erythematosus is characterized by the spontaneous production of IgG autoantibodies in patients and lupus-prone mice. In this study, we investigated the effect of the Sle1 lupus susceptibility locus on the peripheral development of 56R(+) anti-DNA transgenic B cells by tracking 56R(+) B cells in mice without (B6.56R) or with (B6.Sle1.56R) the Sle1 locus. Compared with B6.56R mice, B6.Sle1.56R mice exhibited increased class-switched IgG2a anti-DNA Abs in their serum, encoded by the transgene. Interestingly, within the spleen, Sle1 facilitated the development of these cells into clusters of IgG2a class-switched B cells juxtaposed to CD4(+) T cells within extrafollicular sites. Through sequence analysis of B cell hybridomas, we also found that B cells from B6.Sle1.56R mice are inefficient at Ig H and L chain editing. Thus, the Ig H chains in Sle1.56R(+) B cells are partnered more often with cationic L chains that facilitate DNA binding. Taken together, these findings indicate that the Sle1 lupus-susceptibility locus may facilitate the emergence of anti-DNA B cells by subduing BCR revision and possibly by shaping the extrafollicular development of effector B cells, although the precise molecular mechanisms await further study.
ISSN
0022-1767
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/10371/202644
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.1201558
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