ZAP-70, a member of the Syk family of tyrosine kinases, has been reported to be expressed exclusively in T and NK cells. We show here that it is expressed throughout B cell development and that it plays a role in the transition of pro-B to pre-B cells in the bone marrow, a checkpoint controlled by signals from the pre-B cell receptor (pre-BCR), which monitors for successful rearrangement of immunoglobulin heavy chain genes. Whereas mice deficient in Syk show a partial block at this step, mice mutant in both Syk and ZAP-70 show a complete block at the pro-B cell stage and a failure of heavy chain allelic exclusion, hallmarks of defective pre-BCR signaling.
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