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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE
Volume 199, Issue 2, Pages 209-219Publisher
ROCKEFELLER UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1084/jem.20031571
Keywords
plasma cell subsets; long-term antibody production; immunologic memory; Aiolos; transcription factor
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- NIAID NIH HHS [R01 AI042254, R01-AI/CA42254] Funding Source: Medline
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Antigenic encounter generates long-term immunity sustained by long-lived high affinity plasma cells resident in the bone marrow (BM). Here we show that the Ikaros family member, Aiolos, is specifically required for the generation of these plasma cells. Failure to generate high affinity plasma cells in the BM and to sustain serum antibody titers is apparent after both primary and secondary immunization of Aiolos(-/-) mice with a range of hapten concentrations. Chimera reconstitutions demonstrate that the BM plasma cell defect is B cell intrinsic. Lack of Aiolos does not alter expression of any of the previously described factors required for general plasma cell differentiation. No defect in somatic hypermutation, the generation of memory B cells, or short-lived high affinity plasma cells in the spleen was observed upon rechallenge. These studies support a model by which the high affinity plasma cell population in the BM undergoes a unique differentiation program that is dependent on Aiolos.
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