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Laboratoire dImmunopathologie, Institut dHématologie et dImmunologie, Strasbourg, France
It is well established that autoreactive B cells undergo negative
selection. This stands in paradox with the high frequency of so-called
natural autoreactive B cells producing low affinity polyreactive
autoantibodies with recurrent specificities, suggesting that these B
cells are selected on the basis of their autoreactivity. We previously
described two transgenic mouse lines (with and without IgD) producing a
human natural autoantibody (nAAb) that binds ssDNA and human Fc
. In
the absence of human IgG, nAAb-transgenic B cells develop normally. By
crossing these mice with animals expressing knockin chimeric IgG with
the human Fc
, we now show that the constitutive expression of
chimeric IgG promotes the increase of nAAb-expressing B cells. This
positive selection is critically dependent on the presence of IgD,
occurs in the spleen, and concerns all mature B cell subsets, with a
relative preferential enrichment of marginal zone B cells. These data
support the view that soluble self-Ags can result in positive clonal
selection.
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