Tasuku Honjo,Michael Reth,Andreas Radbruch,Frederick Alt
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Molecular Biology of B Cells
Tasuku Honjo,Michael Reth,Andreas Radbruch,Frederick Alt
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Molecular Biology of B Cells, Second Edition is a comprehensive reference to how B cells are generated, selected, activated and engaged in antibody production.All of these developmental and stimulatory processes are described in molecular, immunological, and genetic terms to give a clear understanding of complex phenotypes.
Molecular Biology of B Cells, Second Edition offers an integrated view of all aspects of B cells to produce a normal immune response as a constant, and the molecular basis of numerous diseases due to B cell abnormality. The new edition continues its success with updated research on microRNAs in B cell development and immunity, new developments in understanding lymphoma biology, and therapeutic targeting of B cells for clinical application. With updated research and continued comprehensive coverage of all aspects of B cell biology, Molecular Biology of B Cells, Second Edition is the definitive resource, vital for researchers across molecular biology, immunology and genetics.
Covers signaling mechanisms regulating B cell differentiation
Provides information on the development of therapeutics using monoclonal antibodies and clinical application of Ab
Contains studies on B cell tumors from various stages of B lymphocytes
Offers an integrated view of all aspects of B cells to produce a normal immune response
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The Structure and Regulation of the Immunoglobulin Loci
Joseph S. Lucas1, Cornelis Murre1, Ann J. Feeney2, and Roy Riblet31Division of Biological Sciences, Department of Molecular Biology, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA2Department of Immunology and Microbial Science, The Scripps Research Institute, CA, USA3Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies, San Diego, CA, USA
Abstract
The temporal and lineage specificity of antigen receptor assembly is regulated at multiple levels. These include locus conformation, germline transcription, chromatin remodeling, epigenetic marking, and nuclear location. Here we discuss how the immunoglobulin loci are structured and how the assembly of antigen receptor elements during B cell development is regulated.
Our adaptive immune system relies heavily on the use of antibodies, produced by B cells, to eliminate foreign pathogens and toxins. It is estimated that mammalian organisms have the ability to generate on the order of 1011 different antibodies [1]. This staggering number is made possible by an elaborate mechanism that assembles complete antigen binding site sequences from arrays of gene segments encoding portions of the complete antibody proteins. This assembly involves combinatorial selection of each type of gene segment and creation of short novel sequences at the junctions of these DNA segments, thus generating a vast variety of assembled gene sequences and antigen binding specificities. Sequence diversity is further increased by the somatic hypermutation process that is active in these sequences.
Antibodies are proteins made up of two identical heavy chains and two identical light chains. All heavy chains are expressed from the Igh locus, whereas light chains are expressed from one of two loci, Igκ or Igλ [2]. The DNA segments that rearrange to create antibody heavy and light chain genes in developing B cells include variable (V) and joining (J) elements, and heavy chain genes include a third, diversity (Dh), gene segment [3]. Single light chain V and J and heavy chain V, D, and J segments are selected and joined in a seemingly random process out of the many such genomic segments that span as much as 3Mbp of DNA
Over the past 30years, a large number of studies have been performed to describe the process of V(D)J recombination in molecular terms, including how it is regulated during development; how it is controlled by cell signaling; how it is modulated by transcription; and how chromatin modifications, nuclear positioning and three-dimensional (3D) topology affect rearrangement. Collectively, these experiments aimed to address a number of critical questions. Some of the prominent questions follow: How do DNA sequences separated by millions of base pairs interact to allow recombination? How are gene segments selected randomly to allow for the generation of antibody diversity?
2. Genomic Organization of the Mouse Immunoglobulin Heavy Chain Locus
The Igh locus is made up of multiple variable (Vh), Dh, joining (Jh), and constant (Ch) segments, arrayed in adjacent regions of the Igh locus. In mice the locus spans 2.75million base pairs, and there are about 100Vh segments that have seemingly functional coding sequences and nearly as many nonfunctional Vh segments, 10–15Dh segments depending on mouse strain, and four Jh segments. Eight constant regions encode the Igh isotypes [4,5]. Vh genes encode most of the heavy chain variable region including the first two hypervariable loops that form the binding site for antigen [6,7]. Dh segments are very short, 10–15 nucleotides of coding sequence, but they are critically important in the generation of antibody diversity. Dh segments determine most of the heavy chain’s third hypervariable region or complementarity determining region 3 (CDR3) [8–10]. In the folded protein’s antigen binding site, this region makes major, sometimes dominant, contacts with antigen.
Each set of gene segments has evolved, and continues to evolve, via gene addition by duplication, divergence through mutation, and loss by nonsense or frameshift mutations or by partial or total deletion. A prominent example is the ancestral duplication of the constant region IgG2a gene and divergence and alternate gene deletion leaving the present IgG2a gene in BALB/c and many other mouse strains and the IgG2c gene in C57BL/6 and related strains [11,12]. A larger scale case in the Igh-V (Vh) array is the duplication of the entire proximal region of the Vh array comprising the interspersed Vh7183 and VhQ52 genes (Ighv5 and Ighv2 families in Figure 1) from 400kb in C57BL/6 to 800kb in 129 and BALB/c [5].
Alignment of Vh gene sequences and grouping them by similarity yields an evolutionary structure of the gene population, revealing three major branches or groups, splitting further into 15 families of genes that share 80% sequence identity. The three groups of Vh genes are an ancient evolutionary division; Vh genes from any vertebrate species fall into several or all three of these groups. Vh gene family structure is apparently not generally shared beyond closely related species [13], although the Vh7183 or Ighv5 family is found widely [14]. In mice, at least, a family of Vh genes occupies a restricted region of the Vh array and are interspersed there with other families; the proximal, 3′ 300kb region of the Vh locus contains only the interspersed Vh7183 and VhQ52 (Ighv5 and Ighv2) families, the distal, 5′ 1.5Mb portion contains only VhJ558 and Vh3609 (Ighv1 and Ighv8) genes, and the central 680kb contains the remaining families.
In developing B cells, Vh, Dh, and Jh segments recombine to encode the antigen-binding domain of the antibody heavy chain [3]. Each Vh, Dh, and Jh segment is flanked by a short DNA sequence called the recombination signal sequence (RSS). This sequence is recognized by recombination activating gene enzymes RAG1 and RAG2. RAG1 and RAG2 form a complex with additional proteins and act to create a loop between the two RSSs, bringing them into proximity. The RAG complex then induces double-strand DNA breaks and promotes ligation of appropriate coding segments via the nonhomologous end-joining machinery [15–17].
In the Igh locus, V, D, J, and C gene segments are in separate clusters, and all in the same 5′→3′ polarity. VDJ rearrangements proceed via serial excisions of intervening sequences, D to J, then V to DJ, and loss of the excised sequences as free closed DNA circles. VDJ recombination is irreversible, although a secondary V–V replacement mechanism occurs at low frequency [18].
3. Genomic Organization of the Mouse Immunoglobulin Kappa Light Chain Locus
The kappa light chain locus (Figure 2) is even larger than the heavy chain locus, extending 3.17Mb; it too contains approximately 100 functional and 60 nonfunctional V segments and four functional (plus one nonfunctional) J segments [19]. Light chain genes do not use D segments. Interestingly, half of all Vk genes are in the opposite polarity to the Jk and Ck loci and must rearrange through a nondestructive inversion of the portion of the Vk gene array between the joining Vk and Jk segments. As a result, many Vk segments are retained rather than excised, for potential use in a secondary rearrangement with any remaining downstream Jk segments. This conserves a larger set of Vk genes for “B cell editing,” i.e., replacement of an initial Vk-Jk choice that yields an antiself antibody or is otherwise a poor partner for the rearranged heavy chain. There seems to be no bias between the excision and inversion mechanisms because both sets of Vk genes contain similar frequencies of both functional genes and highly...