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The Journal of Immunology, Vol 131, Issue 2 561-566, Copyright © 1983 by American Association of Immunologists

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Functional heterogeneity of memory B lymphocytes: in vivo analysis of TD-primed B cells responsive to secondary stimulation with TD and TI antigens

DM Rennick, PR Morrow and E Benjamini

The functional heterogeneity of memory B cells induced by a single determinant, consisting of a decapeptide representing amino acid residues 103-112 of tobacco mosaic virus protein (TMVP), was analyzed. Decapeptide specific antibodies were elicited in mice adoptively transferred with TMVP-immune spleen cells when challenged with TMVP, decapeptide conjugated to succinylated human gamma-globulin (SHGG), or decapeptide conjugated to Brucella abortus (BA). Whereas secondary stimulation by either TMVP or decapeptide-SHGG was dependent on appropriately primed T cells, stimulation by decapeptide-BA was independent of conventional T cell help. Furthermore, memory B cells responsive to TMVP (TD), decapeptide-SHGG (TD), or decapeptide-BA (TI. 1 prototype) were shown to consist of overlapping populations because adoptive recipients of TMVP-primed cells challenged simultaneously with TD and TI decapeptide antigens did not result in a higher antibody response than that elicited by one of the TD antigens injected alone. However, decapeptide-BA consistently induced a smaller antidecapeptide response than either TMVP or decapeptide-SHGG. This suggested that only a fraction of the memory B cell population which was activated by the original priming antigen (thymus-dependent) was also responsive to secondary in vivo stimulation by the priming hapten conjugated to Brucella abortus. Detailed analyses of the antibodies induced in the recipients of TMVP-immune spleen cells after secondary challenge with either TMVP, decapeptide-SHGG, or decapeptide-BA failed to distinguish between the responsive memory B cells; the antidecapeptide antibodies induced by all three immunogens shared the same fine specificities and immunoglobulin isotype composition. These data are viewed as further evidence that subsets of TD-primed B cells, which may display differential sensitivity to cross-stimulation with TD and TI forms of the antigen, represent distinct stages of memory B cell maturation within a common B cell lineage. In support of this conclusion, we establish a developmental relationship between TI and/or TD responsive decapeptide memory B cell in the following communication.




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