PMID: 7543516Aug 1, 1995Paper

Soluble antigen can impede affinity maturation and the germinal center reaction but enhance extrafollicular immunoglobulin production

The Journal of Immunology : Official Journal of the American Association of Immunologists
B PulendranG J Nossal

Abstract

The primary immune response to T cell-dependent Ags develops in two pathways. These comprise the extrafollicular pathway, in which foci of Ab-secreting cells develop, and the intrafollicular pathway that gives rise to germinal centers and affinity maturation. We have previously shown that de-aggregated (4-hydroxy-3-nitrophenyl) acetyl (NP) coupled to the protein carrier human serum albumin (HSA), (NP-HSA), injected 6 days after challenge immunization with aggregated NP-HSA, resulted in impaired development of NP-specific, higher-affinity cells. Studies presented here describe the cellular basis underlying this impairment of affinity maturation. Using multiparameter flow cytometry, we show that mice injected with soluble NP-HSA ("tolerant" mice) develop significantly fewer NP-binding IgG1+ B220+ cells of germinal center origin than do the control ("immune") mice. In addition, using immunohistology, we noted that the spleens of tolerant mice had a marked reduction in the number of germinal centers that contained lambda-bearing cells, these being characteristic of the NP response in C57BL/6 mice. Curiously, germinal centers in the spleens of tolerant mice had more than twice the volumes of those in the immune spleens. In contrast ...Continue Reading

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