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Journal of Experimental Medicine | 2010

Somatic hypermutation as a generator of antinuclear antibodies in a murine model of systemic autoimmunity

Wenzhong Guo; Diana Smith; Katja Aviszus; Thiago Detanico; Ryan A. Heiser; Lawrence J. Wysocki

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is characterized by high-avidity IgG antinuclear antibodies (ANAs) that are almost certainly products of T cell–dependent immune responses. Whether critical amino acids in the third complementarity-determining region (CDR3) of the ANA originate from V(D)J recombination or somatic hypermutation (SHM) is not known. We studied a mouse model of SLE in which all somatic mutations within ANA V regions, including those in CDR3, could be unequivocally identified. Mutation reversion analyses revealed that ANA arose predominantly from nonautoreactive B cells that diversified immunoglobulin genes via SHM. The resolution afforded by this model allowed us to demonstrate that one ANA clone was generated by SHM after a VH gene replacement event. Mutations producing arginine substitutions were frequent and arose largely (66%) from base changes in just two codons: AGC and AGT. These codons are abundant in the repertoires of mouse and human V genes. Our findings reveal the predominant role of SHM in the development of ANA and underscore the importance of self-tolerance checkpoints at the postmutational stage of B cell differentiation.


Immunology | 2007

Mycobacterium tuberculosis heat-shock protein 70 impairs maturation of dendritic cells from bone marrow precursors, induces interleukin-10 production and inhibits T-cell proliferation in vitro

Adriana Motta; Carla Schmitz; Luiz F. Rodrigues; Flávia Ribeiro; César Augusto Teixeira; Thiago Detanico; Carla Denise Bonan; Heather Zwickey; Cristina Bonorino

In different inflammatory disease models, heat‐shock proteins (hsp) and hsp‐derived peptides have been demonstrated to possess anti‐inflammatory properties. While some studies have shown that hsp can directly interact with antigen‐presenting cells, others report that bacterial hsp can induce specific T cells with regulatory phenotypes. Effective characterization of the immunomodulatory effects of hsp 70, however, has historically been confounded by lipopolysaccharide (LPS) contamination. In this study, we compared the effects of LPS‐free Mycobacterial tuberculosis hsp 70 (TBhsp70) and its possible contaminants on dendritic cells (DC). We demonstrate herein that LPS‐free TBhsp70 inhibits murine DC maturation in vitro, while LPS‐contaminated TBhsp70 induces DC maturation. Mock recombinant preparations have no effect. In contrast to LPS, TBhsp70 does not induce tumour necrosis factor‐α production by DC, but interleukin‐10. In vivo, only LPS‐contaminated TBhsp70 induces up‐regulation of CD86 in splenic mature DC. Finally, TBhsp70 inhibited phytohaemagglutinin‐induced T‐cell proliferation. Our results support the hypothesis that TBhsp70 does not have inflammatory potential, but rather has immunosuppressive properties.


Journal of Immunology | 2003

Chromatin Specificity of Anti-Double-Stranded DNA Antibodies and a Role for Arg Residues in the Third Complementarity-Determining Region of the Heavy Chain

Amanda M. Guth; Xianghua Zhang; Diana S. Smith; Thiago Detanico; Lawrence J. Wysocki

A spontaneous, autoreactive autoantibody called SN5–18 (IgG2b, κ) binds to a complex of H2A/H2B/dsDNA in chromatin, but erroneously appears to bind dsDNA when the Ab is used in a form that is not highly purified. Because of this finding, we evaluated the antigenic specificity of a prototypic anti-dsDNA Ab, 3H9/Vκ4, now used widely in transgenic studies of tolerance and autoimmunity. We found that the purified mAb 3H9/Vκ4 binds chromatin and specifically a complex of H2A/H2B/dsDNA, but not dsDNA in solid phase or in solution. When used in the form of culture supernatant or as a standard protein G preparation, mAb 3H9/Vκ4 appears to bind dsDNA, apparently due to nuclear proteins in the preparation that assemble on target DNA. Because of the reported role of VHCDR3 Arg residues in dsDNA binding and the near identity of the SN5–18 sequence to other dsDNA-specific Ab, we tested the contributions of two VHCDR3 Arg residues in SN5–18 to chromatin specificity. We found that both these Arg residues at positions 104 and 106 were required for detectable chromatin binding. These results indicate a role for VHCDR3 Arg residues in chromatin specificity of lupus-derived autoantibodies. Further, they provide an explanation for a possible discrepancy in the form of tolerance observed in different anti-DNA Ig transgene models.


Autoimmunity | 2013

Somatic mutagenesis in autoimmunity.

Thiago Detanico; James B. St. Clair; Katja Aviszus; Greg A. Kirchenbaum; Wenzhong Guo; Lawrence J. Wysocki

Our laboratory investigates systemic autoimmune disease in the context of mouse models of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). SLE is associated with high titers of serum autoantibodies of the IgG class that are predominantly directed against nuclear antigens, with pathological manifestations that are considered by many to be characteristic of an immune-complex mediated disease. In this review, we focus on the known and potential roles of somatic mutagenesis in SLE. We will argue that anti-nuclear antibodies (ANA) arise predominantly from nonautoreactive B cells that are transformed into autoreactive cells by the process of somatic hypermutation (SHM), which is normally associated with affinity maturation during the germinal center reaction. We will also discuss the role of SHM in creating antigenic peptides in the V region of the B cell receptor (BCR) and its potential to open an avenue of unregulated T cell help to autoreactive B cells. Finally, we will end this review with new experimental evidence suggesting that spontaneous somatic mutagenesis of genes that regulate B cell survival and activation is a rate-limiting causative factor in the development of ANA.


Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2015

γδ T cells affect IL-4 production and B-cell tolerance

Yafei Huang; Ryan A. Heiser; Thiago Detanico; Andrew Getahun; Greg A. Kirchenbaum; Tamara L. Casper; M. Kemal Aydintug; Simon R. Carding; Koichi Ikuta; Hua Huang; John C. Cambier; Lawrence J. Wysocki; Rebecca L. O’Brien; Willi K. Born

Significance This study changes our understanding of the relationship between T cells and B cells. Although it is known that T cells provide help for specific B-cell responses, it is unclear if and to what extent T cells also influence preimmune B-cell functions. We show here that γδ T cells modulate systemic antibody levels in nonimmunized mice, including all major subclasses and especially IgE antibodies. One mouse strain deficient in certain γδ T cells developed various autoantibodies, whereas mice deficient in all γδ T cells had relatively normal antibodies. Based on these and other findings, we conclude that γδ T cells, influenced by their own cross-talk, affect IL-4 production, B-cell activation, and B-cell tolerance. γδ T cells can influence specific antibody responses. Here, we report that mice deficient in individual γδ T-cell subsets have altered levels of serum antibodies, including all major subclasses, sometimes regardless of the presence of αβ T cells. One strain with a partial γδ deficiency that increases IgE antibodies also displayed increases in IL-4–producing T cells (both residual γδ T cells and αβ T cells) and in systemic IL-4 levels. Its B cells expressed IL-4–regulated inhibitory receptors (CD5, CD22, and CD32) at diminished levels, whereas IL-4–inducible IL-4 receptor α and MHCII were increased. They also showed signs of activation and spontaneously formed germinal centers. These mice displayed IgE-dependent features found in hyper-IgE syndrome and developed antichromatin, antinuclear, and anticytoplasmic autoantibodies. In contrast, mice deficient in all γδ T cells had nearly unchanged Ig levels and did not develop autoantibodies. Removing IL-4 abrogated the increases in IgE, antichromatin antibodies, and autoantibodies in the partially γδ-deficient mice. Our data suggest that γδ T cells, controlled by their own cross-talk, affect IL-4 production, B-cell activation, and B-cell tolerance.


Journal of Immunology | 2015

γδ T Cells Shape Preimmune Peripheral B Cell Populations

Yafei Huang; Andrew Getahun; Ryan A. Heiser; Thiago Detanico; Katja Aviszus; Greg A. Kirchenbaum; Tamara L. Casper; Chunjian Huang; M. Kemal Aydintug; Simon R. Carding; Koichi Ikuta; Hua Huang; Lawrence J. Wysocki; John C. Cambier; Rebecca L. O’Brien; Willi K. Born

We previously reported that selective ablation of certain γδ T cell subsets, rather than removal of all γδ T cells, strongly affects serum Ab levels in nonimmunized mice. This type of manipulation also changed T cells, including residual γδ T cells, revealing some interdependence of γδ T cell populations. For example, in mice lacking Vγ4+ and Vγ6+ γδ T cells (B6.TCR-Vγ4−/−/6−/−), we observed expanded Vγ1+ cells, which changed in composition and activation and produced more IL-4 upon stimulation in vitro, increased IL-4 production by αβ T cells as well as spontaneous germinal center formation in the spleen, and elevated serum Ig and autoantibodies. We therefore examined B cell populations in this and other γδ-deficient mouse strains. Whereas immature bone marrow B cells remained largely unchanged, peripheral B cells underwent several changes. Specifically, transitional and mature B cells in the spleen of B6.TCR-Vγ4−/−/6−/− mice and other peripheral B cell populations were diminished, most of all splenic marginal zone (MZ) B cells. However, relative frequencies and absolute numbers of Ab-producing cells, as well as serum levels of Abs, IL-4, and BAFF, were increased. Cell transfers confirmed that these changes are directly dependent on the altered γδ T cells in this strain and on their enhanced potential of producing IL-4. Further evidence suggests the possibility of direct interactions between γδ T cells and B cells in the splenic MZ. Taken together, these data demonstrate the capability of γδ T cells of modulating size and productivity of preimmune peripheral B cell populations.


Journal of Autoimmunity | 2015

Predominant role for activation-induced cytidine deaminase in generating IgG anti-nucleosomal antibodies of murine SLE.

Thiago Detanico; Wenzhong Guo; Lawrence J. Wysocki

Serum IgG anti-nuclear antibodies (ANA) directed to complexes of DNA and histones are a hallmark of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and reflect a failure in lymphocyte self-tolerance. A prior study utilizing spontaneously autoimmune B6.Nba2 mice deficient in terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase (TdT) and with heterozygous deficiencies in Jh and Igk loci underscored the importance of somatic hypermutation (SHM) as a major generator of SLE-associated ANA. This interpretation had to be qualified because of severely limited opportunities for receptor editing and restricted VHCDR3 diversity. Therefore, we performed the converse study using mice that carried functional Tdt genes and wild type Jh and Igk loci but that could not undergo SHM. Analyses of ANA and ANA-producing hybridomas from B6.Nba2 Aicda(-/-) mice revealed that few animals produced high titers of the prototypical ANA directed to complexes of histones and DNA, that this response was delayed and that those cells that did produce such antibody exhibited limited clonal expansion, unusual Jk use and only infrequent dual receptor expression. This, together with the additional finding of an intrinsic propensity for SHM to generate Arg codons selectively in CDRs, reinforce the view that most IgG autoimmune clones producing prototypical anti-nucleosome antibodies in wild type mice are created by SHM.


Journal of Immunology | 2011

Self-Tolerance Checkpoints in CD4 T Cells Specific for a Peptide Derived from the B Cell Antigen Receptor

Thiago Detanico; Ryan A. Heiser; Katja Aviszus; Cristina Bonorino; Lawrence J. Wysocki

Linked recognition of Ag by B and T lymphocytes is ensured in part by a state of tolerance acquired by CD4 T cells to germline-encoded sequences within the B cell Ag receptor (BCR). We sought to determine how such tolerance is attained when a peptide from the BCR variable (V) region is expressed by small numbers of B cells as it is in the physiological state. Mixed bone marrow (BM) chimeras were generated using donor BM from mice with B cells that expressed a transgene (Tg)-encoded κ L chain and BM from TCR Tg mice in which the CD4 T cells (CA30) were specific for a Vκ peptide encoded by the κTg. In chimeras where few B cells express the κTg, many CA30 cells were deleted in the thymus. However, a substantial fraction survived to the CD4 single-positive stage. Among single-positive CA30 thymocytes, few reached maturity and migrated to the periphery. Maturation was strongly associated with, and likely promoted by, expression of an endogenous TCR α-chain. CD4+ CA30 cells that reached peripheral lymphoid tissues were Ag-experienced and anergic, and some developed into regulatory cells. These findings reveal several checkpoints and mechanisms that enforce a state of self-tolerance in developing T cells specific for BCR V region sequences, thus ensuring that T cell help to B cells occurs through linked recognition of foreign Ag.


European Journal of Immunology | 2014

Functionally responsive self‐reactive B cells of low affinity express reduced levels of surface IgM

Greg A. Kirchenbaum; James B. St. Clair; Thiago Detanico; Katja Aviszus; Lawrence J. Wysocki

Somatic gene rearrangement generates a diverse repertoire of B cells, many which have receptors possessing a range of affinities for self‐Ag. Newly generated B cells express high and relatively uniform amounts of surface IgM (sIgM), while follicular (FO) B cells express sIgM at widely varying levels. It is plausible, therefore, that downmodulation of sIgM serves as a mechanism to maintain weakly self‐reactive B cells in a responsive state by decreasing their avidity for self‐Ag. We tested this hypothesis by performing comparative functional tests with FO IgMhi and IgMlo B cells from the unrestricted repertoire of WT C57BL/6 mice. We found that FO IgMlo B cells mobilized Ca2+ equivalently to IgMhi B cells when the same number of sIgM molecules was engaged. In agreement, FO IgMlo B cells were functionally competent to produce an antibody response following adoptive transfer. The FO IgMlo cell population had elevated levels of Nur77 transcript, and was enriched with nuclear‐reactive specificities. Hybridoma sampling revealed that these B‐cell receptors were of low affinity. Collectively, these results suggest that sIgM downmodulation by low‐affinity, self‐reactive B cells preserves their immunocompetence and circumvents classical peripheral tolerance mechanisms that would otherwise reduce diversity within the B cell compartment.


Journal of Immunology | 2012

Antigen specific suppression of humoral immunity by anergic Ars/A1 B cells

Katja Aviszus; Megan K. L. MacLeod; Greg A. Kirchenbaum; Thiago Detanico; Ryan A. Heiser; James B. St. Clair; Wenzhong Guo; Lawrence J. Wysocki

Autoreactive anergic B lymphocytes are considered to be dangerous because of their potential for activation and recruitment into autoimmune responses. However, they persist for days and constitute ∼5% of the B cell pool. We assessed their functional potential in the Ars/A1 transgene model, where anergic B cells express a dual-reactive Ag receptor that binds, in addition to a self-Ag, the hapten p-azophenylarsonate (Ars). When Ars/A1 B cells were transferred into adoptive recipients that were immunized with foreign proteins covalently conjugated with Ars, endogenous IgG immune responses to both were selectively and severely diminished, and the development of T helper cells was impaired. Approximately 95% inhibition of the anti-Ars response was attained with ∼4000 transferred Ars/A1 B cells through redundant mechanisms, one of which depended on their expression of MHC class II but not upon secretion of IL-10 or IgM. This Ag-specific suppressive activity implicates the autoreactive anergic B cell as an enforcer of immunological tolerance to self-Ags.

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Lawrence J. Wysocki

University of Colorado Denver

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Katja Aviszus

University of Colorado Denver

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Greg A. Kirchenbaum

University of Colorado Denver

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Ryan A. Heiser

University of Colorado Denver

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Wenzhong Guo

University of Colorado Denver

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Cristina Bonorino

Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul

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James B. St. Clair

University of Colorado Denver

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Amanda M. Guth

Colorado State University

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Diana Smith

University of Colorado Hospital

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