Interleukin 9-induced in vivo expansion of the B-1 lymphocyte population.
(1999) The Journal of experimental medicine — Vol. 189, n° 9, p. 1413-1423 (1999)
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- The activity of interleukin (IL)-9 on B cells was analyzed in vivo using transgenic mice that constitutively express this cytokine. These mice show an increase in both baseline and antigen-specific immunoglobulin concentrations for all isotypes tested. Analysis of B cell populations showed a specific expansion of Mac-1(+) B-1 cells in the peritoneal and pleuropericardial cavities, and in the blood of IL-9 transgenic mice. In normal mice, the IL-9 receptor was found to be expressed by CD5(+) as well as CD5(-) B-1 cells, and repeated injections of IL-9 resulted in accumulation of B-1 cells in the peritoneal cavity, as observed in transgenic animals. Unlike other mouse models, such as IL-5 transgenic mice, in which expansion of the B-1 population is associated with high levels of autoantibodies, IL-9 did not stimulate the production of autoantibodies in vivo, and most of the expanded cells were found to belong to the B-1b subset (IgM+Mac-1(+)CD5(-)). In addition, we found that these IL-9-expanded B-1b cells do not share the well-documented antibromelain-treated red blood cell specificity of CD5(+) B-1a cells. The increase of antigen-specific antibody concentration in immunized mice suggests that these B-1 cells are directly or indirectly involved in antibody responses in IL-9 transgenic mice.
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Vink, A., Warnier, G., Brombacher, F., & Renauld, J.-C. (1999). Interleukin 9-induced in vivo expansion of the B-1 lymphocyte population. The Journal of experimental medicine, 189(9), 1413-1423. https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.189.9.1413 (Original work published 1999)