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The Journal of Immunology, 2007, 178: 2415-2420.
Copyright © 2007 by The American Association of Immunologists, Inc.

TLR9 Signaling in B Cells Determines Class Switch Recombination to IgG2a

Andrea Jegerlehner*, Patrik Maurer*, Juliana Bessa*, Heather J. Hinton*, Manfred Kopf{dagger} and Martin F. Bachmann1,*

* Cytos Biotechnology AG, Zurich-Schlieren, Switzerland; and {dagger} Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Institute of Integrative Biology, Molecular Biomedicine, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Although IgG2a is the most potent Ab isotype in the host response to viral and bacterial infections, the regulation of class switch recombination to IgG2a in vivo is not yet well understood. Recognition of pathogen-associated molecular patterns by dendritic cells expressing TLRs, like TLR7, recognizing ssRNA, or TLR9, recognizing DNA rich in nonmethylated CG motifs (CpG), favors induction of Th1 responses. It is generally assumed that these Th1 responses are responsible for the TLR-mediated induction of IgG2a. Using virus-like particles loaded with CpGs, we show here that TLR9 ligands can directly stimulate B cells to undergo isotype switching to IgG2a. Unexpectedly, TLR9 expression in non-B cells did not affect isotype switching in the Ab response against virus-like particles. Thus, TLR9 can regulate isotype switching to IgG2a directly by interacting with B cells rather than indirectly by inducing Th1 responses.

The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked advertisement in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact.

1 Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Martin F. Bachmann, Cytos Biotechnology AG, Wagistrasse 25, 8952 Zurich-Schlieren, Switzerland. E-mail address: martin.bachmann{at}cytos.com

2 Abbreviations used in this paper: VLP, virus-like particle; DC, dendritic cell.




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