FLICE-inhibitory Protein is a Key Regulator of Germinal Center B Cell Apoptosis

Overview

Journal J Exp Med

Specialties Allergy & Immunology
General Medicine

Date 2001 Feb 22

PMID 11181697

Citations 32

Authors

A Hennino

M Berard

P H Krammer

T Defrance

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Abstract

Affinity maturation of the B cell response to antigen (Ag) takes place in the germinal centers (GCs) of secondary follicles. Two sequential molecular mechanisms underpin this process. First, the B cell repertoire is diversified through hypermutation of the immunoglobulin (Ig) variable region genes. Second, mutant B cell clones with improved affinity for Ag are positively selected by Ag and CD40 ligand (L). This selection step is contingent upon "priming" of GC B cells for apoptosis. The molecular means by which B cell apoptosis is initiated and controlled in the GC remains unclear. Here, we show that GC B cell apoptosis is preceded by the rapid activation of caspase-8 at the level of CD95 death-inducing signaling complex (DISC). We found that GC B cells ex vivo display a preformed inactive DISC containing Fas-associated death domain-containing protein (FADD), procaspase-8, and the long isoform of cellular FADD-like IL-1beta-converting enzyme-inhibitory protein (c-FLIP(L)) but not the CD95L. In culture, c-FLIP(L) is rapidly lost from the CD95 DISC unless GC B cells are exposed to the survival signal provided by CD40L. Our results suggest that (a) the death receptor signaling pathway is involved in the affinity maturation of antibodies, and (b) c-FLIP(L) plays an active role in positive selection of B cells in the GC.

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