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B Cell Selection and Affinity Maturation During an Antibody Response in the Mouse with Limited B Cell Diversity¹

Naoki Kanayama^*, Takafumi Kimoto^*, Kagefumi Todo^*, Yumiko Nishikawa^2,*, Masaki Hikida^2,*, Masaki Magari^*, Marilia Cascalho and Hitoshi Ohmori^3,*

^* Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University, Tsushima-Naka, Okayama, Japan; and Department of Surgery and Immunology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905

The quasi-monoclonal mouse has limited B cell diversity, whose major (80%) B cell Ag receptors are comprised of the knockin V_H 17.2.25 (V_HT)-encoded H chain and the 1 or 2 L chain, thereby being specific for 4-hydroxy-3-nitrophenylacetyl. The p-nitrophenylacetyl (pNP) was found to be a low affinity analog of nitrophenylacetyl. We examined affinity maturation of anti-pNP IgG by analyzing mAbs obtained from quasi-monoclonal mice that were immunized with this low affinity Ag. The results are: 1) Although V_HT/1 and V_HT/2 IgM were equally produced, V_HT/2 IgG almost exclusively underwent affinity maturation toward pNP. 2) A common mutation in complementarity-determining region 3 of V_HT (T313A) mainly contributed to generating the specificity for pNP. 3) Because mutated V_HT-encoded -chains could form 1-bearing IgG in Chinese hamster ovary cells, apparent absence of V_HT/1 anti-pNP IgG may not be due to the incompatibility between the -chains and the 1-chain, but may be explained by the fact that V_HT/1 B cells showed 50- to 100-fold lower affinity for pNP than V_HT/2 B cells. 4) Interestingly, a pNP-specific IgM mAb that shared common mutations including T313A with high affinity anti-pNP IgG was isolated, suggesting that a part of hypermutation coupled with positive selection can occur before isotype switching. Thus, even weak B cell receptor engagement can elicit an IgM response, whereas only B cells that received signals stronger than a threshold may be committed to an affinity maturation process.

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