LY-1 B-CELLS - FUNCTIONALLY DISTINCT LYMPHOCYTES THAT SECRETE IGM AUTOANTIBODIES
LY-1 B-CELLS - FUNCTIONALLY DISTINCT LYMPHOCYTES THAT SECRETE IGM AUTOANTIBODIES
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DOI:
10.1073/pnas.81.8.2494
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发表时间:
1984-01-01
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HERZENBERG, LA
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HAYAKAWA, K;HARDY, RR;HERZENBERG, LA
The mechanisms responsible for IgM autoantibody production were studied. A unique subpopulation of B lymphocytes (Ly-1 B) that concomitantly expresses IgM, IgD, Ia and Ly-1 membrane glycoproteins is present at higher frequencies in NZB and NZB-related mice. The Ly-1 B subpopulation in these autoimmune animals is responsible for the spontaneous IgM secretion demonstrated with cultured NZB spleen cells and contains the cells that secrete typical NZB IgM autoantibodies to single-stranded DNA and to thymocytes. The Ly-1 B population in normal mouse strains (and in NZB) contains virtually all of the spleen cells that secrete IgM autoantibodies reactive with bromelain-treated mouse erythrocytes. Since a different B-cell subpopulation (IgM+, IgD-, Ly-1-) secretes most of the IgM antibodies produced in responses to exogenous antigens, Ly-1 B cells apparently constitute a functionally distinct B cell population important in certain kinds of autoimmunity.