The Journal of Immunology, Vol 146, Issue 8 2568-2577, Copyright © 1991 by American Association of Immunologists

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Receptor-mediated elimination of phosphocholine-specific B cells in x- linked immune-deficient mice

JJ Kenny, AM Stall, DG Sieckmann, MC Lamers, FD Finkelman, L Finch and DL Longo
Program Resources Inc./DynCorp. NCI-FCRDC, Frederick, MD 21702-1201.

The combined expression of the M167 mu/kappa anstiphosphocholine (PC) transgenes with the x-linked immunodeficiency gene, xid, results in an almost total failure to develop B cells in the peripheral lymphoid organs of such mice. Although there is no significant difference between the normal transgene positive (TG+) female offspring and the immunodeficient TG+ xid males with respect to the number of B220+ pre-B cells and IgM+B220+B cells that develop in their bone marrow, the hemizygous xid males have 85% fewer B cells in their spleens than the phenotypically normal heterozygous F1 females. In xid M167-mu- transgenic mice, PC-specific B cells also fail to develop in the spleen; however, numerous B cells bearing the mua+VH1(+)-transgene product associated with endogenous kappa L chains that do not give rise PC-specific antibodies are present. In the phenotypically normal TG+ (B6.CBA/N x mu 243-4)F1 female mice, PC-specific B cells represent almost 10% of the total B cell population, and these B cells express an M167-Id that has been produced by association of the VH1 transgene product with an endogenous V kappa 24L chain. B cells expressing the normally dominant T15-Id are not detectable in the spleens of these M167 mu-transgenic mice. Furthermore, M167-Id+ B cells are present at a fivefold lower level in the bone marrow of mu-TG+ normal mice than in their spleens. These data suggest that the PC-specific B cells that develop in TG+ xid mice are either clonally deleted via some "IgR- directed" mechanism or they fail to receive the appropriate signals to exit the bone marrow or to enter the peripheral lymphoid tissues. This hypothesis is supported by the finding that TNP-specific B cells develop normally and do not undergo clonal deletion in xid mice carrying the Sp6 mu/kappa anti-TNP transgenes.

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