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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2012

T helper cell- and CD40-dependent germline IgM prevents chronic virus-induced demyelinating disease.

Cristina Gil-Cruz, Christian Perez-Shibayama, Sonja Firner, Ari Waisman, Ingo Bechmann, Volker Thiel, Luisa Cervantes-Barragan, Burkhard Ludewig

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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15 citing papers in PubMed, 24 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 6 institutions in 4 countries.

Cristina Gil-CruzInstitute of Immunobiology, Kantonal Hospital St Gallen, St Gallen CH-9007, Switzerland.
Christian Perez-Shibayama
Sonja Firner
Ari Waisman
Ingo Bechmann
Volker Thiel
Luisa Cervantes-Barragan
Burkhard Ludewig
Kantonsspital St. Gallen · CHCentro Medico Nacional Siglo XXI · MXEmory University · USJohannes Gutenberg University Mainz · DELeipzig University · DEUniversity of Bern · CH

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Generation of antiviral IgM is usually considered as a marker of a short-lived initial antibody response that is replaced by hypermutated and more-efficient IgG. However, once viruses have established a particular niche for their persistence (e.g., within the CNS), the immune system has to specifically mobilize a broad range of antimicrobial effectors to contain the pathogen in the long term. Infection of the CNS with the mouse hepatitis virus (MHV) provides a unique model situation in which the extent of inflammatory CNS disease is determined by the balance between antiviral immune control, viral replication, and immune-mediated damage. We show here that whereas antibody- or B cell-deficient mice failed to contain MHV CNS infection and developed progressive demyelinating disease, germline IgM produced in activation-induced cytidine deaminase-deficient mice (aicda(-/-)) provided long-term protection against the chronic multiple sclerosis-like disease. Furthermore, we found that appropriate B-cell activation within the CNS-draining lymph node and subsequent CXCR3-mediated migration of antiviral IgM-secreting cells to the infected CNS was dependent on CD40-mediated interaction of B cells with T helper cells. These data indicate that the CD40-mediated collaboration of T and B cells is critical to secure neuroprotective IgM responses during viral CNS infection.

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AICDA (Activation-Induced Cytidine Deaminase)Analysis of VarianceAnimalsB-LymphocytesCD40 AntigensCentral Nervous SystemCytidine DeaminaseDemyelinating DiseasesEnzyme-Linked Immunospot AssayFlow CytometryFluorescent Antibody TechniqueImmunoglobulin MMiceMice, KnockoutMurine hepatitis virusT-Lymphocytes, Helper-InducerAICDA (Activation-Induced Cytidine Deaminase)CD40 AntigensCytidine DeaminaseImmunoglobulin M

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PMID22232667
PMCPMC3268283
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