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. 1983;2(11):1929-35.
doi: 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1983.tb01681.x.

Deletion of Cmu genes in mouse B lymphocytes upon stimulation with LPS

A Radbruch, F Sablitzky

Deletion of Cmu genes in mouse B lymphocytes upon stimulation with LPS

A Radbruch et al. EMBO J. 1983.

Abstract

Mouse B lymphocytes can be activated polyclonally by bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) to differentiate into plasmablasts. Within several days many cells perform immunoglobulin (Ig) class switching in vitro. We have purified LPS blasts expressing IgM or only IgG3 on the cell surface and analysed the DNA of these cells by Southern hybridisation blotting to detect rearrangement or deletion of CH genes. Quantitative evaluation of the Southern blots suggests that populations of surface IgG3+ (sIgG3+) cells from 6-day and sIgM+ cells from 8-day-old cultures contain only about half as many Cmu genes as spleen cells. Cmu deletion is nearly complete in populations of sIgG3+ cells from 9-day-old cultures. Therefore, upon stimulation with LPS, within a few days Cmu is deleted in most sIgG3+ cells from both chromosomes.

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