Generation of peripheral B cells occurs via two spatially and temporally distinct pathways.
We have identified a population of newly formed bone marrow (BM) B cells that shares multiple characteristics with late transitional B cells in the spleen. Both late splenic transitional B cells and cells within this uncharacterized BM population expressed the cell-surface phenotype AA4(+) CD23(+), yet the developmental kinetics and the renewal rate of AA4(+) CD23(+) BM B cells mirrored recently formed BM B cells. Further, unlike the least mature B cells in the BM and spleen, AA4(+) CD23(+) BM B cells expressed the homing receptor CD62L, were dependent on the antiapoptotic cytokine receptor BR3 and the tec family kinase Btk, and proliferated in response to IL-4 plus CD40 stimulation. Finally, frequencies of lambda light chain-positive B cells declined among AA4(+) CD23(+) B cells in both the BM and spleen, suggesting that V-gene selection events correlate with CD23 expression in both compartments. These observations indicate that the first step in B-cell maturation occurs in both the BM and the periphery and suggest that recently formed B cells exit the BM as a heterogeneous pool of immature and semimature B cells.
Lindsley
Robert Coleman
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Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Thomas
Matthew
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Srivastava
Bhaskar
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Allman
David
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