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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE
Volume 215, Issue 5, Pages 1437-1448Publisher
ROCKEFELLER UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1084/jem.20171815
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31570881, 81771670, 31471107]
- Thousand Talents plan
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province [BK20150992]
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The production of high-affinity antibody is essential for pathogen clearance. Antibody affinity is increased through germinal center (GC) affinity maturation, which relies on BCR somatic hypermutation (SHM) followed by antigen-based selection. GC B cell proliferation is essentially involved in these processes; it provides enough templates for SHM and also serves as a critical mechanism of positive selection. In this study, we show that expression of epigenetic regulator ubiquitin-like with PHD and RING finger domains 1 (Uhrf1) was markedly up-regulated by c-Myc-AP4 in GC B cells, and it was required for GC response. Uhrf1 regulates cell proliferation-associated genes including cdkn1a, slfn1, and slfn2 by DNA methylation, and its deficiency inhibited the GC B cell cycle at G1-S phase. Subsequently, GC B cell SHM and affinity maturation were impaired, and Uhrf1 GC B knockout mice were unable to control chronic virus infection. Collectively, our data suggest that Uhrf1 regulates GC B cell proliferation and affinity maturation, and its expression in GC B cells is required for virus clearance.
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