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BLOOD
卷 117, 期 20, 页码 5438-5448出版社
AMER SOC HEMATOLOGY
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2010-07-296483
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan
- Uehara Foundation
- Takeda Foundation
- NOVARTIS Foundation (Japan) for the Promotion of Science
- Astellas Foundation for Research on Metabolic Disorders
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [22118002, 23790322] Funding Source: KAKEN
Heme binds to proteins to modulate their function, thereby functioning as a signaling molecule in a variety of biologic events. We found that heme bound to Bach2, a transcription factor essential for humoral immunity, including antibody class switch. Heme inhibited the DNA binding activity of Bach2 in vitro and reduced its half-life in B cells. When added to B-cell primary cultures, heme enhanced the transcription of Blimp-1, the master regulator of plasma cells, and skewed plasma cell differentiation toward the IgM isotype, decreasing the IgG levels in vitro. Intraperitoneal injection of heme in mice inhibited the production of antigen-specific IgM when heme was administered simultaneously with the antigen but not when it was administered after antigen exposure, suggesting that heme also modulates the early phase of B-cell responses to antigen. Heme oxy-genase-1, which is known to be regulated by heme, was repressed by both Bach2 and Bach1 in B cells. Furthermore, the expression of genes for heme uptake changed in response to B-cell activation and heme administration. Our results reveal a new function for heme as a ligand of Bach2 and as a modulatory signal involved in plasma cell differentiation. (Blood. 2011;117(20):5438-5448)
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