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The Journal of Immunology, Vol 145, Issue 8 2397-2405, Copyright © 1990 by American Association of Immunologists

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Clonal anergy of memory B cells in epitope-specific regulation

A Galelli and B Charlot
CNRS URA-359, Institut Pasteur, Laboratory of Biologie des Regulations Immunitaires, Paris, France.

Immunization of carrier (keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH)) primed mice with the hapten-carrier TNP-KLH induces specific suppression for the IgG anti-TNP-response without interfering with the response to epitopes on the carrier molecule. To examine the status of hapten-specific memory B cells from suppressed mice, highly enriched populations of TNP- specific memory B cells were purified from the spleen of TNP-KLH (control) or KLH/TNP-KLH (suppressed) immunized mice and tested in vitro for their ability to respond to TD or TI (TNP-KLH, TNP-LPS) antigenic challenge in presence of a KLH-specific Th cell line. Similar numbers of TNP-specific B cells with the characteristics of memory B cells were obtained from control and suppressed mice. TNP-specific B cells from suppressed mice could be triggered to IgG production by TNP- LPS but had an impaired ability to differentiate into IgG-secreting cells in response to TNP-KLH. This impaired IgG response to TNP-KLH was not due to an active suppression by a subset of TNP-specific B cells, or to an impedence of memory cells to a class switching but to an intrinsic memory B cell defect. TNP-specific B cells from suppressed mice were as efficient as memory B cells from control mice to present TNP-KLH to KLH-specific Th cells and to proliferate in response to T cell help. Our data support the view that the effector mechanism of epitope specific regulation does not interfere with the development of hapten-specific memory B cells but that these cells have an intrinsic defect that prevents their differentiation into active IgG antibody secreting cells in response to a T-dependent antigenic challenge.


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