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. 1989 Feb;57(2):432–437. doi: 10.1128/iai.57.2.432-437.1989

Altered expression of the Salmonella typhimurium-specific B-cell repertoire in mice chronically treated with antibodies to immunoglobulin D.

M J Fultz 1, F D Finkelman 1, E S Metcalf 1
PMCID: PMC313115  PMID: 2463968

Abstract

Using a modification of the splenic focus assay, we analyzed the Salmonella typhimurium-specific B-cell repertoire in salmonella-susceptible BALB/c mice. Although these mice normally succumbed to salmonella infection before antibody was produced, they appeared to have splenic S. typhimurium-specific B-cell precursors that could be activated to differentiate and secrete antibody in a manner which was quantitatively and qualitatively identical to that of salmonella-resistant mouse strains. We also analyzed the primary S. typhimurium-specific B-cell repertoire in BALB/c mice that had been chronically treated with antibodies to immunoglobulin D (IgD) and therefore had no surface IgD-positive B cells. Although the frequency of S. typhimurium-specific precursors in these mice was similar to that of control mice, there was an apparent alteration in the isotype distribution pattern in anti-IgD-treated mice. Control mice generated a significantly greater proportion of IgG-secreting clones than did anti-IgD-treated mice. In addition, a greater proportion of S. typhimurium-specific clones from control mice secreted IgG2 than secreted IgG1, and those clones that secreted IgG2 but not IgM, IgG3, or IgG1 were greater than 20-fold more common in control than in anti-IgD-treated mice. Finally, we analyzed the immune response of control and anti-IgD-treated mice to a live avirulent vaccine, S. typhimurium SL3235. Although both groups were protected after challenge with a live virulent S. typhimurium strain, only the control mice made serum antibodies to this vaccine. Taken together, these results show that (i) salmonella-susceptible BALB/c mice have S. typhimurium-specific B cells, (ii) the S. typhimurium-specific B cells in anti-IgD-treated mice may have a restricted capacity to switch heavy-chain classes, (iii) the similarity observed in the frequency of the S. typhimurium-specific precursors for these two groups of BALB/c mice is not reflected in the serum, and (iv) the failure of anti-IgD-treated mice to generate a serum antibody response to SL3235 in the face of complete protection suggests that this model may be used to study cell-mediated immune mechanisms in the apparent absence of humoral immunity.

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