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. 1988 Aug 1;168(2):571–587. doi: 10.1084/jem.168.2.571

IgE-antigen complexes enhance Fc epsilon R and Ia expression by murine B lymphocytes

PMCID: PMC2189002  PMID: 2970519

Abstract

Murine monoclonal IgE interacts with B cells of BALB/c mouse spleen with greater efficiency in the presence of its specific antigen. Complexes of anti-DNP IgE and DNP-OVA not only resist elution from B lymphocytes by acid but have a substantially longer dissociation half- time when compared with monomeric IgE (440 vs. 8 min, respectively). Further, these IgE-antigen complexes induce Fc epsilon R expression in lymphoid cells more efficiently than IgE alone. Maximum levels of B cell Fc epsilon R were observed after a 24 h incubation with 1 microgram/ml IgE in the presence of 1 microgram/ml DNP-OVA, while 30 micrograms/ml monomeric IgE was needed to elicit a similar increase of Fc epsilon R expression. Most importantly, overnight incubation of B cell-enriched BALB/c spleen cells with IgE-antigen complexes resulted in an augmented membrane expression of class II MHC antigens. B cell surface expression of both I-A and I-E antigens responded to a comparable level after incubation with IgE-antigen complexes but did not occur in response to either IgE or antigen alone. The enhanced sIa expression occurred in parallel to IgE-antigen concentrations that gave rise to Fc epsilon R hyperexpression. Moreover, double staining for Fc epsilon R and surface Ia antigen shows that B cells exhibiting the highest density of Fc epsilon R also demonstrated the most surface I-A, suggesting that B lymphocytes are autonomous in their response to IgE- antigen complexes. Changes in class I MHC or sIgM were not observed after overnight incubation with IgE and antigen. These results demonstrate the importance of IgE-antigen complexes for intercellular signaling and further suggest that the IgE system plays a broader role in immune response than it has generally been credited.

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