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CD36 Is Differentially Expressed on B Cell Subsets during Development and in Responses to Antigen¹

Woong-Jai Won^*,, Martin F. Bachmann and John F. Kearney^2,*,

^* Division of Developmental and Clinical Immunology and Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Bikminghan AL 35294; and Cytos Biotechnology AG, Wagistr 25, Schlieren-Zurich, Switzerland

Of a number of mAbs made by immunization with sort-purified marginal zone (MZ) B cells, one was shown to recognize the mouse scavenger receptor CD36. Although CD36 is expressed by most resting MZ B cells and not by follicular and B1 B cells, it is rapidly induced on follicular B cells in vitro following TLR and CD40 stimulation. In response to T-independent and T-dependent Ag challenge, we found that CD36 was expressed on IgM⁺ plasma cells, but down-regulated on isotype-switched plasma cells in vivo. Although development, localization, and phenotype of MZ B cells in CD36^–/– mice appeared normal, there was a minor block in the transitional stages of mature B cell development. In both primary and secondary Ab responses to heat-killed Streptococcus pneumoniae (R36A strain), both phosphoryl choline (PC)-specific IgM and IgG levels in CD36^–/– mice were slightly reduced compared with wild-type mice. In addition, mice deficient in both TLR2 and CD36 produced significantly reduced levels of anti-PC IgG titers than those of single gene-deficient mice, suggesting that they may cooperate in an anti-PC Ab response. Collectively, these results show that CD36 does not affect the development of B cells, but modulates both primary and secondary anti-PC Ab responses during S. pneumoniae infection similarly to TLR2.

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¹ This work was supported in part by National Institutes of Health Grants CA13148 and AI14782.

² Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. John F. Kearney, Division of Developmental and Clinical Immunology, Department of Microbiology, SHEL 410, 1825 University Boulevard, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL 35294-2182. E-mail address: jfk{at}uab.edu

³ Abbreviations used in this paper: MZ, marginal zone; FO, follicular; PEC, peritoneal cavity; BM, bone marrow; DC, dendritic cell; PLC, plasma cell; GC, germinal center; WT, wild type; KO, knock-out; TG, transgenic; PC, phosphoryl choline; PEC, peritoneal cavity.

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