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inkora2,*
inkorová*
* Department of Immunology and Gnotobiology, Institute of Microbiology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Nov
Hrádek, Czech Republic;
Department of Microbiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242;
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Roman L. Hruska U.S. Meat Animal Research Center, Clay Center, NE 68933; and
Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011
B cell lymphogenesis in mammals occurs in various tissues during development but it is generally accepted that it operates by the same mechanism in all tissues. We show that in swine, the frequency of in-frame (IF) VDJ rearrangements differs among yolk sac, fetal liver, spleen, early thymus, bone marrow, and late thymus. All VDJ rearrangements recovered and analyzed on the 20th day of gestation (DG20) from the yolk sac were 100% IF. Those recovered at DG30 in the fetal liver were >90% IF, and this predominance of cells with apparently a single IF rearrangement continued in all organs until approximately DG45, which corresponds to the time when lymphopoiesis begins in the bone marrow. Thereafter, the proportion of IF rearrangements drops to 
71%, i.e., the value predicted whether VDJ rearrangement is random and both chromosomes were involved. Unlike other tissues, VDJs recovered from thymus after DG50 display a pattern suggesting no selection for IF rearrangements. Regardless of differences in the proportion of IF rearrangements, we observed no significant age- or tissue-dependent changes in CDR3 diversity, N region additions, or other characteristics of fetal VDJs during ontogeny. These findings indicate there are multiple sites of B cell lymphogenesis in fetal piglets and differences in the frequency of productive VDJ rearrangements at various sites. We propose the latter to result from differential selection or a developmentally dependent change in the intrinsic mechanism of VDJ rearrangement.
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