Secondary heavy chain rearrangement: a mechanism for generating anti-double-stranded DNA B cells |
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Authors: | Sekiguchi Debora R Eisenberg Robert A Weigert Martin |
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Affiliation: | Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. |
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Abstract: | The chronic graft-versus-host (cGVH) reaction results in a syndrome that closely resembles systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). It is induced in nonautoimmune mice by the transfer of alloreactive T cells. The availability of anti-DNA transgenes allows us to study the genetic origins of autoantibodies in this model. We induced cGVH in two anti-DNA H chain site-directed transgenic mouse strains. This resulted in clonal expansion and selection of specific mutations in the anti-double-stranded (ds) DNA B cell population. These data, together with a high frequency of anti-dsDNA B cell clones recovered as hybridomas, suggested that anti-dsDNAs are the product of an antigen-driven immune response. Genetic analysis associated this response with the generation of anti-dsDNA B cells through secondary rearrangements that replaced the site-directed transgene (sd-tg) with endogenous VH genes. |
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