GSBS Student Publications
Title
Coexpression of B7-1 and antigen blocks tolerance induction to antigen presented by resting B cells
GSBS Program
Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology
Publication Date
1996-09-01
UMMS Affiliation
Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology; Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Life Sciences | Medicine and Health Sciences
Abstract
To investigate a role for B cells as tolerogenic APCs in peripheral lymphoid organs, we have developed a system in which B cells from mice transgenic for the membrane-bound form of human mu-chain are transferred into nontransgenic recipients. Mice injected with B cells expressing human mu-chain became profoundly tolerant to human mu-chain, as shown by greatly reduced Ab responses following challenge with human mu-chain in adjuvant. Adoptive transfer experiments showed that the recipient's Th cell response to human mu-chain was impaired. When the human mu transgenic spleen cells were activated with LPS before transfer, they no longer induced tolerance. Spleen cells from double-transgenic mice expressing both human mu-chain and the costimulatory molecule B7-1 (CD80) also failed to induce tolerance to human mu-chain. However, neither human mu transgenic LPS blasts nor double-transgenic B cells induced an Ab response or primed for a secondary Ab response to Ag in adjuvant. Therefore, we find that expression of B7-1 together with Ag can interfere with tolerance induction without inducing Ab formation or priming for a secondary Ab response.
Source
J Immunol. 1996 Sep 1;157(5):1987-95.
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950)
Related Resources
PubMed ID
8757319
Repository Citation
Yuschenkoff, Victoria Nicole; Sethna, Michael P.; Freeman, Gordon J.; and Parker, David C., "Coexpression of B7-1 and antigen blocks tolerance induction to antigen presented by resting B cells" (1996). GSBS Student Publications. 706.
https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/gsbs_sp/706