Lipopolysaccharide prevents apoptosis and induces responsiveness to antigen receptor cross-linking in immature B cells

Immunology
R J Wechsler-Reya, J G Monroe

Abstract

Unlike mature B cells, immature B cells are not activated in response to antigen receptor cross-linking. To examine the mechanisms underlying this unresponsiveness, we have studied the effects of reagents that have been shown to alter the responses of immature B cells to antigen receptor stimulation. Bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is a polyclonal B-cell activator, and has been shown to interfere with B-cell tolerance induction in vivo and in vitro. Here we show that LPS can also overcome the unresponsiveness of immature B cells to stimulation with anti-receptor (anti-mu) antibodies. LPS synergizes with anti-mu to induce a proliferative response that exceeds the response of immature B cells to LPS alone. Moreover, pretreatment of immature cells with LPS allows them to proliferate in response to subsequent stimulation with anti-mu antibodies. This induction of responsiveness to anti-mu requires exposure to LPS for at least 8 hr. Although the mechanisms of induction are not fully understood, one component of the LPS effect appears to involve enhancement of immature B-cell survival in culture. Neonatal splenic B cells undergo spontaneous apoptosis at a much higher rate than mature B cells, but we have found that LPS causes a dr...Continue Reading

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