Positive and negative selection events during B lymphopoiesis

Current Opinion in Immunology
F MelchersJ Andersson

Abstract

Early in B-cell development, large numbers of cells have to be generated, each of which expresses only one type of B-cell receptor (i.e. Ig) on its surface. This is achieved by the surface expression of a pre-B cell receptor containing a mu heavy chain/surrogate light chain which differentially provides signals for two responses of precursor B cells at this stage of development. On the one hand, it signals inhibition of further rearrangements of variable heavy chain to diverse-joining heavy chain loci to achieve allelic exclusion at the heavy-chain locus. On the other hand, it signals proliferative expansion by factors between 20 and 100. Later in B-cell development, tolerance to autoantigens must be established and maintained. Tolerance is achieved by developmental arrest and induction of secondary light-chain gene rearrangements in those IgM+ immature B cells that are reactive to autoantigens presented in the primary B-cell generating organs. Even later in development, when mature surface (s)IgM+/sIgD+ B cells encounter autoantigens presented to them in the periphery, either deletion or anergy of the autoantigen-reactive cells occurs. Anergic cells have a sIg-dependent, sIg-proximal defect in signaling and are short-lived. An...Continue Reading

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