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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 203, Issue 9, Pages 2401-2414Publisher
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1900678
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- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease
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Ligand-engaged chemoattractant receptors trigger G alpha(i) subunit nucleotide exchange, stimulating the activation of downstream effector molecules. Activated chemoattractant receptors also dock G protein-coupled receptor kinases (GRKs) that help mediate receptor desensitization. In this study, we show that the B cell-specific loss of GRK2 severely disrupts B cell trafficking and immune cell homeostasis. The GRK2 deficiency in developing murine B cells leads to a severe immune phenotype, including a major reduction of bone marrow IgD(+) cells, splenomegaly with a loss of white pulp and grossly expanded red pulp, a deficit of Peyer patches, and small lymph nodes with marked reductions in B cell numbers. The major phenotypes in these mice arise from excessive S1PR1 signaling combined with inadequate homeostatic chemokine receptor signaling. CXCL13 signaling is the most severely compromised. In B cells, our data also indicate that S1PR1 signals constitutively, as blocking S1PR1 signaling with an S1PR1 antagonist enhanced CXCL13-triggered wild-type B cell migration. Furthermore, blocking S1PR1 signaling in the GRK2-deficient B cells partially corrected their poor response to chemokines. Treating mice lacking GRK2 expression in their B cells with an S1PR1 antagonist partially normalized B cell trafficking into lymph node and splenic follicles. These findings reveal the critical interdependence of G alpha(i)-linked signaling pathways in controlling B lymphocyte trafficking.
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