title: Differentiation of B lymphocytes in C3H/HeJ mice: the induction of Ia antigens by lipopolysaccharide.
abstract: The lipid A moiety of bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) elicits several types of responses in murine B lymphocytes. First, lipid A induces the nonproliferative expression of cell surface antigens in more immature cell types. Second, lipid A induces a mitogenic response in more mature B cell types. Lipid A induces the expression of Ia antigens on bone marrow cells from C3H/DiSn but not C3H/HeJ mice. The Ia-inducible cells possess surface immunoglobulin. Agents that elevate intracellular levels of adenosine 3',5'-cyclic monophosphate (cyclic AMP) induce the appearance of Ia antigens on B lymphocytes from both C3H/HeJ and C3H/DiSn mice, suggesting that lipid A exerts its inductive effects by increasing cyclic AMP levels in cells. In contrast to what is observed by using other strains of mice, mature B lymphocytes from C3H/HeJ mice do not support a mitogenic response to lipid A. The subpopulation of B lymphocytes in C3H/HeJ mice that normally respond mitogenically to LPS not only appear to lack an LPS-response mechanism utilized in the mitogenic pathway, but they lack the LPS-response pathway of the immature B cell types. A lipid A-bound protein (LAP) induces both the expression of Ia and a mitogenic response in the different subpopulations of B lymphocytes from C3H/HeJ and C3H/DiSn mice. The genetic defect in C3H/HeJ mice that limits responses to lipid A may be associated with a receptor that is normally expressed on many different cell types.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001402:B-Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology*; D001853:Bone Marrow / Q000276:immunology; D001854:Bone Marrow Cells; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D002499:Centrifugation, Density Gradient; D003165:Complement System Proteins; D003601:Cytotoxicity Tests, Immunologic; D006649:Histocompatibility Antigens; D008055:Lipids / Q000276:immunology; D008213:Lymphocyte Activation; D051379:Mice; D008809:Mice, Inbred C3H / Q000276:immunology*; D011135:Polysaccharides, Bacterial; D013045:Species Specificity
chemical_list: D006649:Histocompatibility Antigens; D008055:Lipids; D011135:Polysaccharides, Bacterial; D003165:Complement System Proteins