Human lymphoma mutations reveal CARD11 as the switch between self-antigen-induced B cell death or proliferation and autoantibody production

Jeelall, YS; Wang, JQ; Law, HD; Domaschenz, H; Fung, HKH; Kallies, A; Nutt, SL; Goodnow, CC; Horikawa, K

Author(s): Jeelall, YS; Wang, JQ; Law, HD; Domaschenz, H; Fung, HKH; Kallies, A; Nutt, SL; Goodnow, CC; Horikawa, K;
Details: Publication Year 2012-10-22,Volume 209,Issue #11,Page 1907-1917
Journal Title: JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE
Publication Type: Journal Article
Abstract: Self-tolerance and immunity are actively acquired in parallel through a poorly understood ability of antigen receptors to switch between signaling death or proliferation of antigenbinding lymphocytes in different contexts. It is not known whether this tolerance-immunity switch requires global rewiring of the signaling apparatus or if it can arise from a single molecular change. By introducing individual CARD11 mutations found in human lymphomas into antigen-activated mature B lymphocytes in mice, we find here that lymphoma-derived CARD11 mutations switch the effect of self-antigen from inducing B cell death into T cell-independent proliferation, Blimp1-mediated plasmablast differentiation, and autoantibody secretion. Our findings demonstrate that regulation of CARD11 signaling is a critical switch governing the decision between death and proliferation in antigen-stimulated mature B cells and that mutations in this switch represent a powerful initiator for aberrant B cell responses in vivo.
Publisher: ROCKEFELLER UNIV PRESS
Keywords: CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC-LEUKEMIA; RECEPTOR; MICE; ACTIVATION; GENOME; NICHES; GENE; BAFF; EXPRESSION; APOPTOSIS
Research Division(s): Molecular Immunology
Link To PubMed Central Version: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3478930/
Publisher's Version: https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.20112744
Open Access at Publisher's Site: http://jem.rupress.org/content/209/11/1907.long
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