Publication Date:
2015-07-18
Description:
The germinal center (GC) is a microanatomical compartment wherein high-affinity antibody-producing B cells are selectively expanded. B cells proliferate and mutate their antibody genes in the dark zone (DZ) of the GC and are then selected by T cells in the light zone (LZ) on the basis of affinity. Here, we show that T cell help regulates the speed of cell cycle phase transitions and DNA replication of GC B cells. Genome sequencing and single-molecule analyses revealed that T cell help shortens S phase by regulating replication fork progression, while preserving the relative order of replication origin activation. Thus, high-affinity GC B cells are selected by a mechanism that involves prolonged dwell time in the DZ where selected cells undergo accelerated cell cycles.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Gitlin, Alexander D -- Mayer, Christian T -- Oliveira, Thiago Y -- Shulman, Ziv -- Jones, Mathew J K -- Koren, Amnon -- Nussenzweig, Michel C -- 1F30AI109903-01/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- 1UM1 AI100663-01/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- AI037526-19/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- AI072529-06/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- T32GM07739/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- UM1 AI100663/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2015 Aug 7;349(6248):643-6. doi: 10.1126/science.aac4919. Epub 2015 Jul 16.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA. ; Molecular Biology Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065, USA. ; Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA. ; Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA. Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA. nussen@rockefeller.edu.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26184917" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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B-Lymphocytes/*cytology
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Cell Cycle/genetics/*immunology
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Cell Proliferation
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DNA Replication/genetics/*immunology
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Gene Expression Regulation
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Germinal Center/*cytology
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Immunity, Humoral/*genetics
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Mice
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Mice, Inbred C57BL
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Mice, Transgenic
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S Phase/genetics/immunology
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T-Lymphocytes/*immunology
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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