Immunoglobulin isotype expression. II. Frequency analysis in mitogen-reactive B cells

European Journal of Immunology
R BennerH Hooijkaas

Abstract

The frequency of lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-reactive B cells developing into clones that secrete the various immunoglobulin (Ig) classes has been determined in vitro, in cells from BALB/c mice, under culture conditions which detect all growth-inducible cells. Secretion of the different Ig classes was assessed in the protein A plaque assay for Ig-secreting, plaque-forming cells by using developing antisera specific for either IgM, IgG1, IgG2a, IgG2b, IgG3 or IgA. In all lymphoid organs tested (spleen, bone marrow, mesenteric lymph nodes and thoracic duct), a considerable proportion of all B cells (5-20%) was induced by LPS to yield a clone of IgM-secreting cells. Frequency determinations of LPS-reactive cells giving rise to descendants secreting other Ig isotypes revealed that, on an average, and irrespective of the origin of the cells, 7% of all IgM-secreting clones switched to the synthesis of IgG1, 39% to IgG2, 41% to IgG3 and 1% to IgA. Roughly the same frequencies of B cells switching CH gene expression were found among spleen cells of athymic nude mice. No correlation was found between the clonal frequencies of CH gene expression in polyclonally activated B cells and the in vivo "background" Ig-secreting cells suggesting tha...Continue Reading

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