Conditional selection of B cells in mice with an inducible B cell development

Abstract: Developing B cells undergo defined maturation steps in the bone marrow and in the spleen. The timing and the factors that control these differentiation steps are not fully understood. By targeting the B cell-restricted mb-1 locus to generate an mb-1 allele that expresses a tamoxifen inducible Cre and another allele in which mb-1 expression can be controlled by Cre, we have established a mouse model with an inducible B cell compartment. With these mice, we studied in detail the kinetics of B cell development and the consequence of BCR activation at a defined B cell maturation stage. Contrary to expectations, transitional 1-B cells exposed to anti-IgM reagents in vivo did not die but instead developed into transitional 2 (T2)-B cells with upregulated Bcl-2 expression. We show, however, that these T2-B cells had an increased dependency on the B cell survival factor B cell activating factor when compared to non-stimulated B cells. Overall, our findings indicate that the inducible mb-1 mouse strain represents a useful model, which allows studying the signals that control the selection of B cells in greater detail

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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Umfang
Online-Ressource
Sprache
Englisch
Anmerkungen
Frontiers in immunology. - 9 (2018) , 1806, ISSN: 1664-3224

Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wo)
Freiburg
(wer)
Universität
(wann)
2021
Urheber
Hobeika, Elias
Dautzenberg, Marcel
Levit Zerdoun, Ella
Pelanda, Roberta
Reth, Michael

DOI
10.3389/fimmu.2018.01806
URN
urn:nbn:de:bsz:25-freidok-2207431
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