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B Cell Tolerance Checkpoints That Restrict Pathways of Antigen-Driven Differentiation¹

Jacqueline William^*, Chad Euler, Nicole Primarolo and Mark J. Shlomchik^2,*,

^* Section of Immunobiology and Department of Laboratory Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520

Autoreactive B cells can be regulated by deletion, receptor editing, or anergy. Rheumatoid factor (RF)-expressing B lymphocytes in normal mice are not controlled by these mechanisms, but they do not secrete autoantibody and were presumed to ignore self-Ag. Surprisingly, we now find that these B cells are not quiescent, but instead are constitutively and specifically activated by self-Ag. In BALB/c mice, RF B cells form germinal centers (GCs) but few Ab-forming cells (AFCs). In contrast, autoimmune mice that express the autoantigen readily generate RF AFCs. Most interestingly, autoantigen-specific RF GCs in BALB/c mice appear defective. B cells in such GCs neither expand nor are selected as efficiently as equivalent cells in autoimmune mice. Thus, our data establish two novel checkpoints of autoreactive B cell regulation that are engaged only after initial autoreactive B cell activation: one that allows GCs but prevents AFC formation and one that impairs selection in the GC. Both of these checkpoints fail in autoimmunity.

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