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NATURE IMMUNOLOGY
卷 12, 期 2, 页码 151-U64出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ni.1981
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [BE 1171/2-1, SFB 618, SFB 650]
- Bundesministerium fur Bildung und Forschung [0315267D]
- Volkswagen Foundation
- Berlin Senate of Research and Education
Plasma cells are of crucial importance for long-term immune protection. It is thought that long-lived plasma cells survive in specialized niches in the bone marrow. Here we demonstrate that bone marrow eosinophils localized together with plasma cells and were the key providers of plasma cell survival factors. In vitro, eosinophils supported the survival of plasma cells by secreting the proliferation-inducing ligand APRIL and interleukin-6 (IL-6). In eosinophil-deficient mice, plasma cell numbers were much lower in the bone marrow both at steady state and after immunization. Reconstitution experiments showed that eosinophils were crucial for the retention of plasma cells in the bone marrow. Moreover, depletion of eosinophils induced apoptosis in long-lived bone marrow plasma cells. Our findings demonstrate that the long-term maintenance of plasma cells in the bone marrow requires eosinophils.
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