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Carl Borrebaeck

Carl Borrebaeck

Professor

Carl Borrebaeck

The human CD77(-) B cell population represents a heterogeneous subset of cells comprising centroblasts, centrocytes, and plasmablasts, prompting phenotypical revision

Author

  • Carl-Magnus Högerkorp
  • Carl Borrebaeck

Summary, in English

The process of becoming an Ig-producing plasma cell takes the mature B cell through the germinal center, where Ig genes are diversified through somatic hypermutation and class switch recombination. To more clearly define functional characteristics of the germinal center dark zone centroblasts and the light zone centrocytes, we have performed expression analysis of the CD77(+) and CD77(-) populations, because CD77 has been accepted as a discriminator of centroblasts and centrocytes. Our results demonstrated that the CD77(+) and the CD77(-) populations lack functional associated expression programs discriminating the two populations. Both populations are shown to be actively cycling and to share common features associated with cell cycle regulation and DNA maintenance. They are also shown to have an equally active DNA repair program, as well as components involved in somatic hypermutation and class switch recombination. Moreover, the data also demonstrated that the CD77(-) population comprises cells with an already initiated plasma cell differentiation program. Together this demonstrates that CD77 does not discriminate centroblasts and centrocytes and that the CD77(-) population represents a heterogeneous subset of cells, comprising centroblasts, centrocytes, and plasmablast.

Department/s

  • Department of Immunotechnology

Publishing year

2006

Language

English

Pages

4341-4349

Publication/Series

Journal of Immunology

Volume

177

Issue

7

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

American Association of Immunologists

Topic

  • Immunology in the medical area

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1550-6606