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* Klinikum, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany;
Medical Policlinic, University of Munich, Munich, Germany;
Institute for Animal Physiology, University of Munich, Munich, Germany;
GSF National Research Center for Environment and Health, Munich, Germany; and
¶ Austin Research Institute, Austin and Repatriation Medical Center, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
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Searching for CCR2-positive cells in the mouse to get more insight into the phenotype of CCR2-deficient mice or mice treated with a blocking CCR2 Ab (4), we found CCR2 expression on a cell population that did not meet any criteria for T cells, B cells, NK cells, monocytes, or neutrophils. These cells were located within the lymphocyte gate with a somewhat higher side scatter than B and T cells and most characteristically expressed high levels of surface IgGs but completely lacked any markers of B cells. We decided to isolate these cells and found that they release very high levels of IL-4. This finally led to the discovery that these cells are basophils and prompted us to reanalyze the Ag-capturing cells described by Bell and Gray (3).
Murine basophils are notoriously hard to identify as summarized in a recent article by Dvorak (5) with the title "murine basophils: rare and rarely recognized cells." Basophils complete their differentiation in the bone marrow and appear as mature basophils in the peripheral blood. Under inflammatory conditions, they can be recruited to sites of inflammation (6). Human basophils show high expression of CCR3 and CCR2 but weak expression of CCR1 and CCR5 (7, 8, 9). Upon stimulation by cross-linking of surface IgE or IgG and by some parasite products, basophils release histamine, leukotriene C4, and a variety of cytokines including IL-4 and IL-13 (6, 10, 11). After recruitment they play an important role in allergic, late phase reactions and the host response against parasites (12, 13). Basophils however also have major impacts on B and T cell function. They can induce class switch to IgE independently of T cells (14) and induce a shift toward Th2 differentiation (15, 16). Our finding that basophils are the only cell type in the peripheral blood, bone marrow, and spleen that can capture Ags in significant amounts underlines the importance of this cell type in innate and adaptive immune responses.
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C57BL/6 mice were injected i.p. with 80 µg soluble allophycocyanin (Prozyme) in 200 µl of PBS with 109 heat-killed Bordetella pertussis. Three weeks after the first immunization, a boost dose of 80 µg soluble allophycocyanin with B. pertussis was given. Mice were analyzed between 10 and 30 days after the boost. Governmental approval was given for the animal experiments.
Cell preparations
Blood was drawn from the retro-orbital plexus and anticoagulated with 1 mM EDTA. Plasma was obtained by centrifugation of blood for 10 min at 500 x g. Single-cell suspensions of spleen were prepared in ice-cold RPMI 1640 medium with 10% FCS and filtered to remove cell debris (Miltenyi Biotec). Bone marrow was obtained from the femur bones by flushing out the cells with ice-cold RPMI 1640 medium with 10% FCS.
Flow cytometry
To detect allophycocyanin-binding cells, cell preparations were washed three times in ice-cold PBS and stained with 10 µg/ml allophycocyanin (Prozyme) dissolved in PBS. The following Abs were purchased from BD Pharmingen: CD45(LCA)-FITC (30-F11), CD11b-FITC (M1/70), CD19-FITC (1D3), CD11c-PE (HL3), CD16/32-PE (2.4G2), CD19-PE (1D3), HLA-IA/IE-PE (M5/114.15.2), CD4-Cy5 (RM4–5), CD8-Cy5 (53–6.7), Gr-1-APC (RB6–8C5), c-kit-PE (2B8) CD16/32-biotin (2.4G2), CD21/35-biotin (8C12), CD54-biotin (3E2), CD123-biotin (5B11), CD138-biotin (281-2), B220-biotin (RA3-6B2), DX-5-biotin, anti-IgE-FITC (R35-72), anti-IgE-biotin (R35-72), anti-IgG2a-biotin (R19-15), anti-IgG2b-biotin (R12-3), anti-IgG3-biotin (R40-82), anti-IgM-biotin (II/41), and purified mouse IgE isotype standard (C48-2). Anti-IgG1-biotin was purchased from Serotec (clone LO-MG1-2; Serotec). Abs against CCR2 (MC-21) and CCR5 (MC-68) were produced as described elsewhere (17). Abs against murine CD64 (clones X54-3J/10.4 and X54-374) were described previously (18). Secondary reagents were mouse anti-rat-IgG2b-biotin (RG7/11.1), mouse anti-rat-
-chain-biotin (RG7/9.1) (BD Pharmingen), streptavidin-PE (DakoCytomation), and streptavidin-Cy5 (DakoCytomation). Cells were incubated with primary Abs for 45 min on ice, washed three times with ice-cold PBS, and, if necessary, with secondary reagents for 45 min on ice. When anti-rat-IgG2b or anti-rat -chain Abs were used, a blocking step with 5% rat serum was included before staining with primary Abs. RBC were lysed with FACS-lysing solution (BD Pharmingen) and analyzed on a FACSCalibur (BD Biosciences).
Isolation of basophils from peripheral blood and spleen
Basophils were prepared from unimmunized mice. Erythrocytes were lysed by addition of 0.2% sodium chloride for 10 s with subsequent correction of tonicity with an identical volume of 1.6% sodium chloride. To isolate basophils from the peripheral blood, the cells were stained with CD45-FITC, CD16/32-PE, and Gr1-APC for 30 min on ice. Basophils were identified by gating on the lymphocyte gate, by medium expression of CD45, by high expression of CD16/32, and by absence of Gr-1 and were sorted on a cell sorter (Moflow; DakoCytomation). The purity of the basophils was routinely >98% by subsequent FACS analysis. For isolation of basophils from the spleen, CD19+ B cells and CD11b+ monocytes and neutrophils were first depleted with microbeads against CD19 and CD11b using LD columns (Miltenyi Biotec) and the remaining cells were stained with PE-labeled rabbit anti-mouse IgG (R0439; DakoCytomation), followed by blockade with 5% mouse serum and staining with CD45-FITC and Gr1-allophycocyanin. Basophils were identified by gating on the lymphocyte population, by medium expression of CD45, by high expression of surface IgG (R0439), and by the absence of Gr-1. The purity of the basophils was routinely >98%. Using eight mice, 
150.000 basophils were recovered from the peripheral blood and 350.000 from the spleens. Staining with anti-IgE, CD123 (IL-3R), CCR2, HLA IA/IE, CD19, B220, CD35, CD21, and CD138 Abs showed that the isolated cells were basophils.
Depletion of IgE from murine plasma
Sixty microliters of streptavidin-Sepharose (Amersham Biosciences) was loaded with 60 µg biotinylated anti-IgE Abs (clone R35-118) or biotinylated anti-IgG2a (clone R19-15) as control and washed five times to remove unbound Abs. Plasma from allophycocyanin-immunized mice (200 µl) was incubated twice for 1 h at room temperature with 30 µl of anti-IgE- or anti-IgG2a-coated Sepharose. The Sepharose was removed by centrifugation and complete depletion of IgE was shown by ELISA as described below.
Cell culture
Basophils (40,000/well) were culture in round-bottom plates for 3 days in RPMI 1640 with 10% FCS and 1% penicillin/streptomycin. Where indicated, cells were stimulated with a polyclonal rabbit anti-mouse IgG (Dianova, Hamburg, Germany).
ELISA
IL-4 and IL-6 were measured in the cell culture supernatant with a commercially available kit (OptEIA; BD Pharmingen).
For measurement of total IgE in plasma, ELISA plates were coated with anti-IgE mAb (clone R35-72; 10 µg/ml) and bound IgE was detected with a biotinylated anti-IgE mAb (clone R35-118) followed by streptavidin-HRP (DakoCytomation) according to the manufacturer’s recommendations.
To test cross-reactivity of isotype-specific mAbs against murine IgG1, IgG2a, and IgG2b with purified murine IgE (BD Pharmingen), IgE was coated overnight at a concentration of 10 µg/ml followed by incubation with the biotinylated isotype-specific mAbs and streptavidin-HRP. No cross-reactivity of IgG isotype-specific Abs was detectable, while an Ab against IgE showed good reactivity with plate-bound IgE (data not shown).
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C57BL/6 mice were immunized twice with allophycocyanin using killed B. pertussis as adjuvant. Bone marrow, peripheral blood leukocytes, and splenocytes were stained with allophycocyanin and Abs against CD19 or B220. As described by Bell and Gray (3), two populations of allophycocyanin-binding cells were detected in allophycocyanin-immunized mice. In addition to allophycocyanin-positive B cells, a second population of CD19-negative/B220-negative allophycocyanin-binding cells was detectable at a frequency of 0.58% of total leukocytes in the peripheral blood, 0.77% in the bone marrow (Fig. 1a), and 0.21% in the spleen (data not shown). In the bone marrow, allophycocyanin-positive B cells were detected at a very low frequency, while allophycocyanin-positive non-B cells were much more abundant. The allophycocyanin-positive B cells show a wide range of allophycocyanin staining intensity, as expected for an oligoclonal B cell population with variable affinity and avidity for the Ag. In contrast, the allophycocyanin staining on the non-B cell compartment is very homogeneous and of identical signal strength in bone marrow, spleen, and peripheral blood. By backgating we could localize the allophycocyanin-positive non-B cells within the lymphocyte gate with somewhat higher side scatter properties than T or B cells (Fig. 1b). Costaining with several surface markers revealed that the allophycocyanin-positive non-B cells express low amounts of CD11b, but are negative for the additional B cell or plasma cell markers HLA-II, IgM, CD138, and CD21/35 (data not shown). Staining with a variety of other surface markers for T cells, NK cells, and monocytes did not result in identification of this cell population. However, a combination of staining for CD45, Gr-1, CD16/32, and surface Ig could unambiguously identify this cell population. They show reduced expression of the common leukocyte Ag CD45, comparable to neutrophils, but are negative for the neutrophil marker Gr-1. In addition, they are highly positive for CD16/32 and express large amounts of surface Igs, as detected with a polyclonal Ab against IgG (Fig. 2b and data not shown). Combination of these surface markers enabled us to isolate the cell population in sufficient quantities for in vitro analysis from the peripheral blood and the spleen of mice with a purity of >98%. The most striking finding was the release of large amounts of IL-4 and also some IL-6 after stimulation by cross-linkage of surface Ig with a polyclonal anti-mouse IgG Ab (Fig. 1c). LPS (50 µg/ml) was used as additional stimulus but did not result in a significant release of IL-4. These functional properties were very much reminiscent of the previously described IL-4-secreting non-B non-T cells (19) and raised the possibility that the cell population might consist of basophilic granulocytes that are know to release IL-4 after stimulation (20, 21). Indeed, staining with Abs against IgE and the IL-3R (CD123) showed that all allophycocyanin-positive non-B cells were highly positive for both molecules (Fig. 3a) and that all IgE highly positive cells strongly bind allophycocyanin (Fig. 3b). Strong binding of IgE and homogeneous expression of the IL-3R is a hallmark for basophilic granulocytes that typically localize within the lymphocyte gate by light scatter properties (8, 9). It also became evident that allophycocyanin-positive cells were either CD19-positive B cells or IgE/CD123-positive basophils. The additional IgE-negative population of Ag-binding cells described by McHeyzer-Williams et al. (2) was not detectable in our mice.
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Ag capture is dependent on IgE receptors on basophils and Ag-specific IgE
We analyzed the binding of various Ig subtypes on basophils in comparison to other cell types (Fig. 2a). Using Abs against murine IgG1, IgG2a, IgG2b, and IgE, we found that basophils in the peripheral blood of BALB/c mice have severalfold more Igs bound on their surface than monocytes, neutrophils, and even B cells (Fig. 2a). These differences were most pronounced for IgE that was by far the most predominant Ig on basophils and was hardly detectable on other cell types. However, also various IgG subtypes were detectable at higher levels on basophils than on other cell types. This binding of IgG subtypes might result from a higher expression of Ig FcRs on basophils. This was indeed the case for the low- and medium-affinity FcRs for IgGs, Fc
RIII, and FcRII (CD16/32) (Fig. 2b) that would at least mediate the binding of IgG containing immune complexes. Using recently described mAbs against CD64 (18), we were not able to demonstrate CD64 (FcRI) expression on basophils in the peripheral blood and found only a marginal expression of CD64 on basophils in the bone marrow (data not shown). However, we could demonstrate that the binding of allophycocyanin-specific Igs on basophils is very stable. When basophils from allophycocyanin-immunized mice were washed several times and incubated for 48 h in medium, no significant reduction in their ability to bind allophycocyanin was observed (data not shown). These data suggest that the capture of Igs by basophils occurs with rather high affinity or avidity.
The concept of Ab capturing by basophils was tested in vitro. Bone marrow cells from unimmunized C57BL/6 mice were incubated for 1 h at 37°C with plasma from control and allophycocyanin-immunized mice and washed three times before allophycocyanin was added. Incubation with plasma (75% of total volume) from allophycocyanin-immunized mice enabled the basophils to bind large amounts of allophycocyanin (Fig. 4, upper panel), whereas other cell types showed little allophycocyanin binding (Fig. 4, lower panel). Incubation with plasma from control mice did not allow allophycocyanin binding to basophils.
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R1 and prevents the removal of unoccupied FcR1 from the cell surface (24, 25, 26). As expected, the amount of IgE molecules bound to basophils from unimmunized mice increased after exposure to IgE for 1 h at 37°C. The mean channel fluorescence for IgE bound to these basophils was 447 after expose to IgE-depleted plasma, 824 after exposure with an IgE isotype control Ab (50 µg/ml), 862 after incubation with plasma from allophycocyanin- immunized mice but only 582 after incubation with plasma from unimmunized control mice. The increased binding of IgE by basophils after incubation with plasma from immunized mice compared with control mice is consistent with ELISA data measuring the total amount of IgE in the plasma. Immunized mice have 8-fold higher IgE levels in their plasma than unimmunized mice (4.6 vs 0.55 µg/ml). It is reasonable to assume that a fraction of these additional IgE molecules will have specificity for allophycocyanin and mediate the ability of basophils to capture Ag.
Since IgE induced up-regulation of surface FcR1 is supposed to occur only at 37°C, we also analyzed whether the capture of allophycocyanin-specific IgE molecules from the plasma of immunized mice is higher at 37°C than on ice. Incubation of basophils from unimmunized mice with plasma from allophycocyanin-immunized mice on ice resulted only in a low binding of allophycocyanin, whereas allophycocyanin binding was much higher when the incubation with plasma was performed at 37°C (Fig. 7a). The same differences were observed when potentially unoccupied IgE receptors on the basophils were first saturated by preincubation with IgE isotype control Abs (75 µg/ml) and after thorough washing the subsequent incubation with plasma was performed on ice or at 37°C (Fig. 7b).
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Several parameters were used to identify these cells as basophils. By light scatter properties in flow cytometry they are located in the lymphocyte gate with a somewhat higher side scatter than the majority of B or T cells. The Ag-capturing cells are negative for B cells markers (CD19, B220, CD21/35, IgM, HLA II) and the plasma cell marker CD138 (Syndecan-1). They show a high expression of surface IgE and the IL-3R CD123, and release large quantities of IL-4 after cross-linkage of surface IgE. In the peripheral blood, bone marrow, and spleen, only one cell population with high expression of IgE and CD123 was detectable. This population was identical to the allophycocyanin binding non-B cells, which means that all basophils identified by a high surface expression of IgE and CD123 were allophycocyanin-positive and that all allophycocyanin-positive non-B cells homogeneously express high levels of surface IgE and CD123. We also performed costaining with CD11c and HLA-II to exclude dendritic cells as Ag-capturing cells, as some dendritic cell subpopulations have been described to express the IL-3R (27, 28, 29). In addition, we excluded mast cells as Ag-binding cells. Allophycocyanin-positive cells in all three compartments (blood, spleen, bone marrow) expressed only marginal levels of c-kit (mean channel fluorescence, 25) and cells in the bone marrow that were clearly c-kit-positive (mean channel fluorescence, 1000) did not capture allophycocyanin. Further evidence that the allophycocyanin- binding non-B cells are basophilic granulocytes comes from light microscopy that showed slightly granular cells with basophilic granules and indented nuclei with lobulation. We also analyzed the expression of the chemokine receptors and found a high expression of CCR2 and an absence of CCR5, a feature that has also been described for human basophils.
We then wanted to know why only basophils and not other FcR-positive leukocyte subsets (like monocytes or neutrophils) are able to capture Ag-specific Igs and bind intact Ag. We therefore analyzed the amount of surface-bound Igs on basophils compared with other cell types. Using isotype-specific Abs against IgM, IgG1, IgG2a, IgG2b, and IgE, we found that IgM is absent on basophils, while the IgG subtypes and especially IgE is detectable in large amounts on the surface of basophils. The amount of IgE captured by basophils by far outweighs the amount of IgG on basophils. Binding of IgE was only marginal on other cell types. The virtual absence of the high-affinity IgG Fc receptors FcR1 (CD64) and the ability of basophils to still capture allophycocyanin after several washing steps and even culture for 2 days in medium suggested that high-affinity receptors for IgE and allophycocyanin-specific IgE molecules might be responsible for the Ag-binding capacity of basophils. To analyze which Ig receptors and which Ig isotypes are responsible for the allophycocyanin binding, we allowed basophils from unimmunized mice to capture Igs from the plasma of allophycocyanin-immunized mice by in vitro incubation for 1 h at 37°C. Incubation with plasma from allophycocyanin-immunized mice in contrast to plasma from naive mice allowed basophils to bind large amounts of allophycocyanin, while other cell types showed little allophycocyanin binding. The capture of allophycocyanin-specific Igs on basophils could almost completely be prevented by preincubation of basophils with an excess of IgE Igs. In addition, depletion of IgE from the plasma of allophycocyanin- immunized mice markedly reduced the capture of allophycocyanin-specific Igs by basophils from naive mice. These data show that receptors for IgE on basophils and allophycocyanin-specific IgE molecules in the plasma are required for Ag binding on basophils. Our results are consistent with a previous report by Bell and Gray (3) that have shown the absence of Ag-capturing cells in mice deficient in the common FcR -chain. These mice are unable to express IgG receptors FcRI and FcRIII as well as the high-affinity receptor for IgE. In conjunction with our data, one now can conclude that basophils capture Ags by binding Ag-specific IgE molecules on high-affinity IgE receptors. The high-affinity IgG Fc receptor CD64 that was recently shown to be expressed on murine mast cell lines (P815, 10P2) and on APCs (dendritic cells, macrophages) has no major contribution to Ag binding on basophils.
How could basophils obtained from naive mice with IgE molecules already bound to their IgE receptors capture additional allophycocyanin-specific IgE molecules from the plasma of allophycocyanin-immunized mice? First, the IgE receptors on basophils from naive mice might not be completely occupied by the low concentrations of IgE (0.55 µg/ml) detected in the plasma of these mice. Second, the incubation of basophils with plasma from allophycocyanin-immunized mice containing much higher IgE concentrations (4.6 µg/ml) might result in an up-regulation of high-affinity IgE receptors and a decreased loss of surface FcR1 (24, 25, 26). It was shown that IgE molecules (5 µg/ml) induce an 4-fold up-regulation of FcR1 expression within 3 h on murine mast cells (25). Up-regulation of high-affinity IgE receptors might explain the much higher binding of allophycocyanin, when basophils were incubated with plasma from allophycocyanin-immunized mice at 37°C compared with an incubation on ice. In addition, up-regulation of IgE receptors also appears as the most likely explanation why the blockade of potentially unoccupied IgE receptors with IgE control Abs did not prevent the subsequent capture of allophycocyanin-specific IgE Abs at 37°C. Since basophils were extensively washed after incubation with plasma, an interaction of allophycocyanin-specific IgE molecules with low-affinity receptors for IgE appears unlikely. The up-regulation of FcR1 by IgE molecules would enable basophils to bind newly added IgE Abs and always present a representative sample of plasma-derived IgE molecules on their surface despite the high-affinity interaction between IgE and FcR1.
Basophils are important regulators of humoral immune responses. They influence B cell function by secretion of cytokines and also express CD40L that stimulates B cell proliferation (14, 30, 31). Via CD40L and the secretion of the cytokines IL-4, IL-6, and IL-13, basophils induce a Th2 deviation of the immune response and induce class switching to IgE and IgG4 in humans (14, 15, 16, 31, 32). The capture of Igs by basophils might be important during both the recognition phase and memory responses. In both phases, the amount of Ag is greater than the amount of specific Igs in the plasma and therefore free Ag is available for cross-linkage of surface Igs on basophils. At later time points, an excess of specific Ab would prevent binding of Ags to basophils and thereby exclude basophils from participating in immune regulation. The high expression of the chemokine receptor CCR2 that is also critical for migration of APCs (monocytes/macrophages and dendritic cells) may help to localize basophils to sites of Ag recognition and enhance their influence on humoral immune responses, especially in spleen and bone marrow.
In summary, we have identified Ag-capturing non-B cells as basophilic granulocytes that bind intact Ags in an IgE and IgE receptor-dependent manner. By their ability to capture Ags and respond to cross-linkage of surface Igs, basophils may play an important role in supporting and accelerating humoral immune responses in the recognition phase and during a memory response.
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1 This work was supported by grants from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft to M.M. (MA2198) and H.B. (BR2139). 
2 Address correspondence and reprint requests to Prof. Dr. Matthias Mack, Klinikum der Universität Regensburg, 93042 Regensburg, Germany. E-mail address: matthias.mack{at}klinik.uni-regensburg.de
Received for publication August 19, 2004. Accepted for publication November 2, 2004.
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