Mice triallelic for the Ig heavy chain locus: implications for VHDJH recombination

The Journal of Immunology : Official Journal of the American Association of Immunologists
V BarretoA Cumano

Abstract

V(H)DJ(H) recombination has been extensively studied in mice carrying an Ig heavy chain rearranged transgene. In most models, inhibition of endogenous Ig rearrangement occurs, consistently with the feedback model of IgH recombination. Nonetheless, an incomplete IgH allelic exclusion is a recurrent observation in these animals. Furthermore, transgene expression in ontogeny is likely to start before somatic recombination, thus limiting the use of Ig-transgenic mice to access the dynamics of V(H)DJ(H) recombination. As an alternative approach, we challenged the regulation of somatic recombination with the introduction of an extra IgH locus in germline configuration. This was achieved by reconstitution of RAG2(-/-) mice with fetal liver cells trisomic for chromosome 12 (Ts12). We found that all three alleles can recombine and that the ratio of Ig allotype-expressing B cells follows the allotypic ratio in trisomic cells. Although these cells are able to rearrange the three alleles, the levels of Ig phenotypic allelic exclusion are not altered when compared with euploid cells. Likewise, we find that most VDJ rearrangements of the silenced allele are unable to encode a functional mu-chain, indicating that the majority of these cells a...Continue Reading

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