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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 183, Issue 6, Pages 3690-3699Publisher
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.0900953
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- National Institutes of Health
- National Science Foundation graduate research fellowship
- Cancer Research Institute fellowship
- National Science Foundation East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes fellowship
- Singapore National Research Foundation
- Academic Research Fund [R-183-000-160-112]
- Biomedical Research Council of Singapore [R-183-000-211-305]
- National Medical Research Council [R-183-000-224213]
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The accumulation of misfolded secreted IgM in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) of X-box binding protein 1 (XBP-1)-deficient B cells has been held responsible for the inability of such cells to yield plasma cells, through the failure to mount a proper unfolded protein response. LPS-stimulated B cells incapable of secreting IgM still activate the XBP-1 axis normally, as follows: XBP-1 is turned on by cues that trigger differentiation and not in response to accumulation of unfolded IgM, but the impact of XBP-1 deficiency on glycoprotein folding and assembly has not been explored. The lack of XBP-1 compromised neither the formation of functional hen egg lysozyme-specific IgM nor the secretion of free kappa-chains. Although XBP-1 deficiency affects the synthesis of some ER chaperones, including protein disulfide isomerase, their steady state levels do not drop below the threshold required for proper assembly and maturation of the Ig alpha/Ag beta heterodimer and MHC molecules. Intracellular transport and surface display of integral membrane proteins are unaffected by XBP-1 deficiency. Given the fact that we failed to observe any defects in folding of a variety of glycoproteins, we looked for other means to explain the requirement for XBP-1 in plasma cell development. We observed significantly reduced levels of phosphatidylcholine, sphingomyelin, and phosphatidylinositol in total membranes of XBP-1-deficient B cells, and reduced ER content. Terminal N-linked glycosylation of IgM and class I MHC was altered in these cells. XBP-1 hence has important roles beyond folding proteins in the ER. The Journal of Immunology, 2009, 183: 3690-3699.
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