title: Four of five RAG-expressing JCkappa-/- small pre-BII cells have no L chain gene rearrangements: detection by high-efficiency single cell PCR.
abstract: Single cell PCR assays have been further developed that detect over 80% of all VkappaJkappa, VkappaRS, and VlambdaJlambda rearrangements at efficiencies between 70% and 90%. These IgL chain gene rearrangement assays were used with small pre-BII cells that develop in comparably high numbers in the bone marrow of wild-type, Ckappa-deficient, and JCkappa-deficient homozygous and heterozygous mice. In all of these mice, only 15%-25% of all small pre-BII cells carry VlambdaJlambda rearrangements. These results confirm that lambdaL chain gene rearrangements occur independently of kappaL chain gene rearrangement and expression. They also show that a large part of the small pre-BII cells that express the rearrangement machinery can develop without IgL chain gene rearrangements.
authors.affiliation: Basel Institute for Immunology, Switzerland.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yamagami
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: ten Boekel
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Schaniel
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Andersson
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rolink
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Melchers
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001402:B-Lymphocytes; D002452:Cell Count; D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D015328:Gene Rearrangement, B-Lymphocyte, Light Chain; D005803:Genes, Immunoglobulin; D006412:Hematopoietic Stem Cells; D018398:Homeodomain Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D007133:Immunoglobulin Joining Region / Q000235:genetics*; D007145:Immunoglobulin kappa-Chains / Q000235:genetics*; D007146:Immunoglobulin lambda-Chains / Q000235:genetics; D051379:Mice; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D004268:DNA-Binding Proteins; D018398:Homeodomain Proteins; D007133:Immunoglobulin Joining Region; D007145:Immunoglobulin kappa-Chains; D007146:Immunoglobulin lambda-Chains; C499308:Rag2 protein, mouse; C064655:V(D)J recombination activating protein 2; C064658:RAG-1 protein