Ly-1 B cells: functionally distinct lymphocytes that secrete IgM autoantibodies.
AUTOR(ES)
Hayakawa, K
RESUMO
Studies presented here introduce another perspective on the mechanisms responsible for IgM autoantibody production. A unique subpopulation of B lymphocytes (Ly-1 B) that concomitantly expresses IgM, IgD, Ia, and Ly-1 membrane glycoproteins is present at higher frequencies in NZB and NZB-related mice. The Ly-1 B subpopulation in these autoimmune animals is responsible for the "spontaneous" IgM secretion demonstrated with cultured NZB spleen cells and contains the cells that secrete typical NZB IgM autoantibodies to single-stranded DNA and to thymocytes. In addition, the Ly-1 B population in normal mouse strains (and in NZB) contains virtually all of the spleen cells that secrete IgM autoantibodies reactive with bromelain-treated mouse erythrocytes. Since a different B-cell subpopulation (IgM+, IgD-, Ly-1) secretes most of the IgM antibodies produced in responses to exogenous antigens, we conclude that Ly-1 B cells constitute a functionally distinct B-cell population important in certain kinds of autoimmunity.
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