Abstract
Plasma cells (PCs) have a heterogeneous phenotype in humans. While bone marrow PCs are CD20-CD138+, tonsil PCs are CD20+CD138+/- and peripheral plasmablasts (PBs) are CD20-CD138-. In vitro, PCs are mainly generated by the activation of CD27+ memory B-cells through transient stimulation of CD40, and their phenotype appears similar to that of bone marrow PCs. While CD20 expression is lost at the plasmablastic stage, CD138 expression appears only at the PC stage. Thus, the CD20+CD138± phenotype of tonsil PCs does not represent an intermediate stage in the differentiation of memory B-cells into PCs. Because it has been previously shown that TLR9 activation was more able than CD40 stimulation to induce the differentiation of IgM+ CD27+ B-cells, we wondered whether TLR9 or CD40 stimulation would induce the same phenotype of PCs. Thus, we compared the differentiation of CD27+ B-cells isolated from either the tonsils or peripheral blood and stimulated with either CD40L-expressing fibroblasts or a TLR9 ligand, CpG oligodeoxynucleotide (CpG ODN). We observed that CpG ODN mainly induced CD27+ B-cell differentiation into CD20+CD38+CD138- PBs and CD20+CD38+CD138± PCs, which appear similar to tonsil PCs. Removal of CpG ODN during differentia...Continue Reading
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