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Rescue of the mature B cell compartment in BAFF-deficient mice by treatment with recombinant Fc-BAFF

Swee, Lee Kim and Tardivel, Aubry and Schneider, Pascal and Rolink, Antonius. (2010) Rescue of the mature B cell compartment in BAFF-deficient mice by treatment with recombinant Fc-BAFF. Immunology Letters, Vol. 131, No. 1. pp. 40-48.

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Abstract

BAFF deficiency in mice impairs B cell development beyond the transitional stage 1 in the spleen and thus severely reduces the size of follicular and marginal zone B cell compartments. Moreover, humoral immune responses in these mice are dramatically impaired. We now addressed the question whether the decrease in mature B cell numbers and the reduced humoral immune responses in BAFF-deficient mice could be overcome by the injection of recombinant BAFF. We therefore engineered a recombinant protein containing the human IgG1 Fc moiety fused to receptor-binding domain of human BAFF (Fc-BAFF). At 1 week after the second injection of this fusion protein a complete rescue of the marginal zone B cell compartment and a 50% rescue of the follicular B cell compartment was observed. Moreover these mice mounted a T cell-dependent humoral immune response indistinguishable from wild-type mice. By day 14 upon arrest of Fc-BAFF treatment mature B cell numbers in the blood dropped by 50%, indicating that the life span of mature B cells in the absence of BAFF is 14 days or less. Collectively these findings demonstrate that injection of Fc-BAFF in BAFF-deficient mice results in a temporary rescue of a functional mature B cell compartment.
Faculties and Departments:03 Faculty of Medicine > Departement Biomedizin > Former Units at DBM > Developmental and Molecular Immunology (Rolink)
UniBasel Contributors:Rolink, Antonius G.
Item Type:Article, refereed
Article Subtype:Research Article
Publisher:Elsevier
ISSN:0165-2478
Note:Publication type according to Uni Basel Research Database: Journal article
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