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The Journal of Immunology, Vol 155, Issue 5 2387-2395, Copyright © 1995 by American Association of Immunologists

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Initiation of the phosphocholine-specific response to Proteus morganii. B cell transfectants expressing unmutated VH/VL can respond to stimulation by P. morganii antigen

SJ Penner, J George and L Claflin
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor 48109, USA.

We wished to resolve a paradox of how the response to the phosphocholine (PC) determinant of Proteus morganii could be initiated from a precursor B cell whose receptor, in unmutated form as Ab, appears to be unable to bind Ag. Unmutated VH and unmutated VL constructs were co-transfected into the B cell lymphoma M12.4 to study stimulation via membrane lg (mlg). The same VH construct was expressed in an L+, H- hybridoma line to characterize Ab binding. The unmutated Ab showed no detectable binding in ELISA to the PC-containing Ag from P. morganii PC(PM). By contrast, the unmutated mlg mediated mobilization of calcium in response to the PC(PM) Ag. Single-positive B cell lines of mlgM, mlgD double-positive lines were all capable of responding. The degree of signaling depended greatly on high receptor number, and only a fraction of cells in the population responded. Inhibition of the PC(PM)-induced calcium response by free PC indicated that the response was Ag-specific. A transfectant B cell line expressing moderate levels of a high affinity, mutated mlgM readily responded to PC(PM). These observations indicate that the unmutated lg as a receptor is capable of interacting with PC(PM) and suggest that the immune response to PC(PM) could originate from the precursor B cell expressing the unmutated mlg. The role of mlgD vs mlgM is discussed in terms of the requirement for high receptor number in the signaling process.


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