title: BAFF and the plasticity of peripheral B cell tolerance.
abstract: BAFF and its receptors play a crucial role in peripheral B cell selection and survival, by dictating the set point for mature primary B cell numbers and adjusting thresholds for specificity-based selection during transitional differentiation. The notion that selective stringency can be varied on the basis of homeostatic demands reveals a previously unappreciated degree of plasticity in B cell tolerance, and suggests a paradigm that unites peripheral negative and positive selection with the maintenance of mature B cell numbers. Moreover, it implies a developmentally regulated coupling of BCR and BAFF receptors at the transitional stages and beyond.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, 36th and Hamilton Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6082, United States.
authors.forename: Jason E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Stadanlick
authors.forename: Michael P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Cancro
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D053264:B-Cell Activating Factor / Q000378:metabolism*; D053265:B-Cell Activation Factor Receptor / Q000378:metabolism*; D001402:B-Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology*; D006801:Humans; D007108:Immune Tolerance; D051379:Mice; D011947:Receptors, Antigen, B-Cell / Q000378:metabolism; D015398:Signal Transduction
chemical_list: D053264:B-Cell Activating Factor; D053265:B-Cell Activation Factor Receptor; D011947:Receptors, Antigen, B-Cell