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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 181, Issue 11, Pages 7537-7549Publisher
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.181.11.7537
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- American Cancer Society
- Leukemia Research Foundation
- University of Virginia Cancer Center for Core support
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Deregulation of the c-Myc oncogene is tightly associated with human and murine plasma cell (PC) neoplasms. Through the analysis of Ag-specific 13 cell responses in mice where Myc is targeted to the Igh C alpha locus, we show here that c-Myc dramatically impairs the primary and secondary Ab response. This impairment is differentiation stage specific, since germinal center B cell formation, affinity maturation, and class switch recombination were intact. Examination of PC viability revealed that c-Myc triggered apoptosis only upon final maturation when Ab is secreted and is resistant to the survival factor BAFF (B cell-activating factor belonging to the TNF family). In contrast, PC precursors (PCpre) that ultimately give rise to mature PCs survived normally and vigorously expanded with BAFF signaling. We further show that c-Myc also facilitates the apoptosis of memory B cells. Thus, C alpha-Myc controls both cellular arms of long-lived B cell immunity than previously anticipated. Only when deregulation of c-Myc was combined with enforced Bcl-x(L) expression were mature PCs able to survive in response to BAFF. These data indicate that the survival requirements for tumor-susceptible PCpre and PCs are distinct and that tumor progression likely develops as PCpre transition to functional PCs when apoptotic pathways such as members, of the Bcl-2 family are disabled. The Journal of Immunology, 2008, 181: 7537-7549.
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