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Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Only 5% of the 15 million B cells formed daily reach the long-lived peripheral B cell pool, presumably reflecting both negative and positive selection. These selective events occur primarily during late stages of differentiation in the marrow and periphery, when newly formed B cells bear surface IgM (sIgM), but differ from mature B cells in their expression of heat-stable Ag (CD24), B220 (CD45), and sIgD. Because genes of the Bcl-2 family influence longevity, we compared the expression of Bcl-2, Bax, and A1 among immature vs mature peripheral B cells using semiquantitative reverse-transcriptase PCR. While the levels of both Bcl-2 and Bax mRNA remain constant in these two populations, A1 expression is strikingly up-regulated among mature B cells. In addition, A1 expression is low among pro- and pre-B cells, as well as in immature (sIgM+) marrow B cells. Together, these data indicate that A1 mRNA expression is low at all stages of B cell development before final maturation in the periphery and, unlike other Bcl-2 family members whose expression changes little after marrow egress, A1 is up-regulated 10-fold as cells are recruited into the long-lived peripheral B cell pool.
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