Publication Date:
2003-08-16
Description:
During B lymphocyte development, antibodies are assembled by random gene segment reassortment to produce a vast number of specificities. A potential disadvantage of this process is that some of the antibodies produced are self-reactive. We determined the prevalence of self-reactive antibody formation and its regulation in human B cells. A majority (55 to 75%) of all antibodies expressed by early immature B cells displayed self-reactivity, including polyreactive and anti-nuclear specificities. Most of these autoantibodies were removed from the population at two discrete checkpoints during B cell development. Inefficient checkpoint regulation would lead to substantial increases in circulating autoantibodies.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Wardemann, Hedda -- Yurasov, Sergey -- Schaefer, Anne -- Young, James W -- Meffre, Eric -- Nussenzweig, Michel C -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2003 Sep 5;301(5638):1374-7. Epub 2003 Aug 14.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10021, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12920303" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Antibodies, Antinuclear/biosynthesis/immunology
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Antibody Diversity
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Antibody Specificity
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Autoantibodies/*biosynthesis/immunology
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B-Lymphocytes/cytology/*immunology/physiology
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Cell Differentiation
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Cell Line
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Complementarity Determining Regions/chemistry/immunology
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Cytosol/immunology
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Genes, Immunoglobulin
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Humans
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Immunoglobulin Heavy Chains/chemistry/immunology
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Recombination, Genetic
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Selection, Genetic
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Tumor Cells, Cultured
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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