The Journal of Immunology, Vol 149, Issue 7 2249-2254, Copyright © 1992 by American Association of Immunologists

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Comparison of tyrosine kinase activation by mitogenic and nonmitogenic anti-IgD antibodies

M Brunswick, A Burkhardt, F Finkelman, J Bolen and JJ Mond
Laboratory of Cell Biology, Food and Drug Administration, Bethesda, MD 20892.

Low concentrations of anti-Ig dextran conjugates that stimulate very high levels of B cell proliferation and Ig secretion stimulate no detectable increases in tyrosine phosphorylation. To study this point further, we compared tyrosine phosphorylation patterns induced by mitogenic and nonmitogenic anti-Ig antibodies. Whereas the mitogenic, strongly cross-linking, antibody H delta a/1 induced greater levels of tyrosine phosphorylation than did the nonmitogenic antibody FF1-4D5, the pattern of substrate phosphorylation was equivalent. At lower concentrations of H delta a/1, which were still mitogenic, the degree of phosphorylation that was induced was similar to that induced by high concentrations of FF1-4D5. Both antibodies stimulated comparable increases in the kinase activity of the three src-related kinases present in normal B cells and linked to the IgR, i.e., Blk, Fyn, and Lyn. These results suggest that the extent of tyrosine kinase activation is proportional to mIg cross-linking, that induction of B cell DNA synthesis may require little tyrosine kinase activation, and that activation of tyrosine kinase per se does not necessarily lead to B cell DNA synthesis.

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