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* Departments of Pathology and Pediatrics, Center for Blood Research,
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, and
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115
Group B Streptococcus (GBS) is the foremost bacterial cause of serious neonatal infections. Protective immunity to GBS is mediated by specific Abs to the organism’s capsular polysaccharide Ags. To examine the role of complement in the humoral immune response to type III GBS capsular polysaccharide (III-PS), mice deficient in C3 or in CD21/CD35 (i.e., complement receptors 1 and 2; CR1/CR2) were immunized with III-PS. Mice deficient in C3 or Cr2 had an impaired primary immune response to III-PS. The defective response was characterized by low IgM levels and the lack of an isotype switch from IgM to IgG Ab production. Compared with wild-type mice, C3- and Cr2-deficient mice exhibited decreased uptake of III-PS by follicular dendritic cells within the germinal centers and impaired localization of III-PS to the marginal zone B cells. Complement-dependent uptake of capsular polysaccharide by marginal zone B cells appears necessary for an effective immune response to III-PS. The normal immune response in wild-type mice may require localization of polysaccharide to marginal zone B cells with subsequent transfer of the Ag to follicular dendritic cells.
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