Receptor editing in a transgenic mouse model: Site, efficiency, and role in B cell tolerance and antibody diversification
Receptor editing in a transgenic mouse model: Site, efficiency, and role in B cell tolerance and antibody diversification
复制标题
DOI:
10.1016/s1074-7613(00)80395-7
复制
发表时间:
1997-12-01
期刊:
影响因子:
32.4
通讯作者:
Rajewsky, K
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
Pelanda, R;Schwers, S;Rajewsky, K
Mice carrying transgenic rearranged V region genes in their IgH and Ig kappa loci to encode an autoreactive specificity direct the emerging autoreactive progenitors into a pre-B cell compartment, in which their receptors are edited by secondary V kappa-J kappa rearrangements and RS recombination. Editing is an efficient process, because the mutant mice generate normal numbers of B cells. In a similar nonautoreactive transgenic strain, neither a pre-B cell compartment nor receptor editing was seen. Thus, the pre-B cell compartment may have evolved to edit the receptors of autoreactive cells and later been generally exploited for efficient antibody diversification through the invention of the pre-B cell receptor, mimicking an autoreactive antibody to direct the bulk of the progenitors into that compartment.