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NATURE IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 6, Issue 11, Pages 1160-1167Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ni1256
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- NIAID NIH HHS [R01-AI020519] Funding Source: Medline
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Immunological tolerance can be mediated by anergy, in which self-reactive B cells persist in the periphery yet remain unresponsive to immunogen. Whether anergy is induced after transient exposure to self antigen and is 'remembered' or requires continuous antigen receptor occupancy and transduction of signals remains unclear. We have explored this using an immunoglobulin-transgenic mouse in which B cells were hapten specific (arsonate) yet cross-reacted with a self antigen that induced anergy in vivo. Many features of anergic cells were rapidly reversed after dissociation of self antigen using hapten competition and these cells regained antigen responsiveness. Our findings indicate that continuous binding of antigen and subsequent receptor signaling are essential for the maintenance of anergy.
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