Cantaert Tineke, Schickel Jean-Nicolas, Bannock Jason M, Ng Yen-Shing, Massad Christopher, Oe Tyler, Wu Renee, Lavoie Aubert, Walter Jolan E, Notarangelo Luigi D, Al-Herz Waleed, Kilic Sara Sebnem, Ochs Hans D, Nonoyama Shigeaki, Durandy Anne, Meffre Eric
Department of Immunobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06511, USA.
Division of Immunology/Allergy, Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Québec, Québec City, G1V 4G2, Canada.
Immunity. 2015 Nov 17;43(5):884-95. doi: 10.1016/j.immuni.2015.10.002. Epub 2015 Nov 3.
Activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID), the enzyme-mediating class-switch recombination (CSR) and somatic hypermutation (SHM) of immunoglobulin genes, is essential for the removal of developing autoreactive B cells. How AID mediates central B cell tolerance remains unknown. We report that AID enzymes were produced in a discrete population of immature B cells that expressed recombination-activating gene 2 (RAG2), suggesting that they undergo secondary recombination to edit autoreactive antibodies. However, most AID+ immature B cells lacked anti-apoptotic MCL-1 and were deleted by apoptosis. AID inhibition using lentiviral-encoded short hairpin (sh)RNA in B cells developing in humanized mice resulted in a failure to remove autoreactive clones. Hence, B cell intrinsic AID expression mediates central B cell tolerance potentially through its RAG-coupled genotoxic activity in self-reactive immature B cells.
激活诱导的胞苷脱氨酶(AID)是介导免疫球蛋白基因类别转换重组(CSR)和体细胞高频突变(SHM)的酶,对于清除发育中的自身反应性B细胞至关重要。AID如何介导中枢B细胞耐受性仍不清楚。我们报告称,AID酶在表达重组激活基因2(RAG2)的离散未成熟B细胞群体中产生,这表明它们经历二次重组以编辑自身反应性抗体。然而,大多数AID+未成熟B细胞缺乏抗凋亡蛋白MCL-1,并通过凋亡被清除。在人源化小鼠中发育的B细胞中使用慢病毒编码的短发夹(sh)RNA抑制AID,导致无法清除自身反应性克隆。因此,B细胞内在的AID表达可能通过其在自身反应性未成熟B细胞中的RAG偶联基因毒性活性介导中枢B细胞耐受性。