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ArticleEuropean journal of immunology2015

APOBEC3 enzymes restrict marginal zone B cells.

Gabriele B Beck-Engeser, Rebecca Winkelmann, Matthew L Wheeler, Maryam Shansab, Philipp Yu, Sarah Wünsche, Anja Walchhütter, Mirjam Metzner, Christian Vettermann, Dan Eilat and 3 more

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Article in European journal of immunology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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13 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Gabriele B Beck-EngeserDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Rebecca Winkelmann
Matthew L Wheeler
Maryam Shansab
Philipp Yu
Sarah Wünsche
Anja Walchhütter
Mirjam Metzner
Christian Vettermann
Dan Eilat
Anthony DeFranco
Hans-Martin Jäck
Matthias Wabl
University of California, San Francisco · USFriedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg · DEPhilipps University of Marburg · DEHebrew University of Jerusalem · IL

Funding

GENE TARGETED MICE WITH A SIMPLIFIED IMMUNE SYSTEMR01AI041570 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI WABL, MATTHIAS R · 1998 to 2014
$4.6M
The role of Apobec3 enzymes in regulation of marginal zone B cellsR21AI107101 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI DEFRANCO, ANTHONY L, WABL, MATTHIAS R · 2013 to 2014
$419k
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI041570NIAID NIH HHS R01AI041570NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI107101NIAID NIH HHS R21AI107101
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In general, a long-lasting immune response to viruses is achieved when they are infectious and replication competent. In the mouse, the neutralizing antibody response to Friend murine leukemia virus is contributed by an allelic form of the enzyme Apobec3 (abbreviated A3). This is counterintuitive because A3 directly controls viremia before the onset of adaptive antiviral immune responses. It suggests that A3 also affects the antibody response directly. Here, we studied the relative size of cell populations of the adaptive immune system as a function of A3 activity. We created a transgenic mouse that expresses all seven human A3 enzymes and compared it to WT and mouse A3-deficient mice. A3 enzymes decreased the number of marginal zone B cells, but not the number of follicular B or T cells. When mouse A3 was knocked out, the retroelement hitchhiker-1 and sialyl transferases encoded by genes close to it were overexpressed three and two orders of magnitude, respectively. We suggest that A3 shifts the balance, from the fast antibody response mediated by marginal zone B cells with little affinity maturation, to a more sustained germinal center B-cell response, which drives affinity maturation and, thereby, a better neutralizing response.

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Antibody FormationAnimalsAPOBEC DeaminasesB-LymphocytesCytidine DeaminaseCytosine DeaminaseGerminal CenterHumansMiceMice, Inbred BALB CMice, KnockoutVirus DiseasesApobec3 protein, mouseAPOBEC3 proteins, humanAPOBEC DeaminasesCytidine DeaminaseCytosine DeaminaseApobec3B cellHitchhiker-1Recovery from Friend virus 3 (Rfv3)Sialyl transferases

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PMID25501566
PMCPMC4972502
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