HomA and HomB, outer membrane proteins of Helicobacter pylori down-regulate activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) and Ig switch germline transcription and thereby affect class switch recombination (CSR) of Ig genes in human B-cells

2022 ◽  
Vol 142 ◽  
pp. 37-49
Author(s):  
Anubhav Tamrakar ◽  
Prashant Kodgire
Blood ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 109 (1) ◽  
pp. 159-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jurga Laurencikiene ◽  
Vytas Tamosiunas ◽  
Eva Severinson

Abstract Germline (GL) transcription is regulated by specific promoters and immunoglobulin heavy chain (IgH) 3′ locus enhancers and is necessary for Ig class-switch recombination (CSR). We have generated different transgenic lines containing the GL ϵ promoter, switch (S) ϵ region, and constant (C) ϵ region with or without the DNase I–sensitive regions (HS) 3A-HS1,2 or HS3B-HS4 3′ IgH enhancer pairs. The enhancerless construct was expressed in B cells activated by interleukin (IL)–4 and CD40, thus resembling regulation of the endogenous gene. Both enhancer-containing transgenes efficiently increased expression in B cells and were strongly up-regulated by stimuli. In addition, Sϵ regions of the transgene containing HS3B-HS4 were mutated in activated, sorted B cells. Such mutations are known to precede CSR and are dependent on activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID). Our findings show that all elements necessary for recruitment of the recombination machinery are present in the transgene containing HS3 and HS4. These enhancers probably provide something more specific than mere increased accessibility of switch regions. We propose that transcription factors binding the enhancers help to target the recombination machinery to the switch regions.


2008 ◽  
Vol 180 (8) ◽  
pp. 5283-5290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela Frasca ◽  
Ana Marie Landin ◽  
Suzanne C. Lechner ◽  
John G. Ryan ◽  
Robert Schwartz ◽  
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2002 ◽  
Vol 184 (22) ◽  
pp. 6155-6162 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nayoung Kim ◽  
David L. Weeks ◽  
Jai Moo Shin ◽  
David R. Scott ◽  
Mary K. Young ◽  
...  

ABSTRACT Secretion of proteins by Helicobacter pylori may contribute to gastric inflammation and epithelial damage. An in vitro analysis was designed to identify proteins released by mechanisms other than nonspecific lysis. The radioactivity of proteins in the supernatant was compared with that of the intact organism by two-dimensional gel phosphorimaging following a 4-h pulse-chase. The ratio of the amount of UreB, a known cytoplasmic protein, in the supernatant to that in the pellet was found to be 0.25, and this was taken as an index of lysis during the experiments (n = 6). Ratios greater than that of UreB were used to distinguish proteins that were selectively released into the medium. Thus, proteins enriched more than 10-fold in the supernatant compared to UreB were identified by mass spectrometry. Sixteen such proteins were present in the supernatant: VacA; a conserved secreted protein (HP1286); putative peptidyl cis-trans isomerase (HP0175); six proteins encoded by HP0305, HP0231, HP0973, HP0721, HP0129, and HP0902; thioredoxin (HP1458); single-stranded-DNA-binding 12RNP2 precursor (HP0827); histone-like DNA-binding protein HU (HP0835); ribosomal protein L11 (HP1202); a putative outer membrane protein (HP1564); and outer membrane proteins Omp21 (HP0913) and Omp20 (HP0912). All except HP0902, thioredoxin, HP0827, HP0835, and HP1202 had a signal peptide. When nalidixic acid, a DNA synthesis inhibitor, was added to inhibit cell division but not protein synthesis, to decrease possible contamination due to outer membrane shedding, two outer membrane proteins (Omp21 and Omp20) disappeared from the supernatant, and the amount of VacA also decreased. Thus, 13 proteins were still enriched greater than 10-fold in the medium after nalidixic acid treatment, suggesting these were released specifically, possibly by secretion. These proteins may be implicated in H. pylori-induced effects on the gastric epithelium.


2003 ◽  
Vol 198 (9) ◽  
pp. 1427-1437 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroyuki Gonda ◽  
Manabu Sugai ◽  
Yukiko Nambu ◽  
Tomoya Katakai ◽  
Yasutoshi Agata ◽  
...  

Pax5 activity is enhanced in activated B cells and is essential for class switch recombination (CSR). We show that inhibitor of differentiation (Id)2 suppresses CSR by repressing the gene expression of activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID), which has been shown to be indispensable for CSR. Furthermore, a putative regulatory region of AID contains E2A- and Pax5-binding sites, and the latter site is indispensable for AID gene expression. Moreover, the DNA-binding activity of Pax5 is decreased in Id2-overexpressing B cells and enhanced in Id2−/− B cells. The kinetics of Pax5, but not E2A, occupancy to AID locus is the same as AID expression in primary B cells. Finally, enforced expression of Pax5 induces AID transcription in pro–B cell lines. Our results provide evidence that the balance between Pax5 and Id2 activities has a key role in AID gene expression.


2007 ◽  
Vol 204 (8) ◽  
pp. 1989-1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petra Langerak ◽  
Anders O.H. Nygren ◽  
Peter H.L. Krijger ◽  
Paul C.M. van den Berk ◽  
Heinz Jacobs

B cells use translesion DNA synthesis (TLS) to introduce somatic mutations around genetic lesions caused by activation-induced cytidine deaminase. Monoubiquitination at lysine164 of proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNAK164) stimulates TLS. To determine the role of PCNAK164 modifications in somatic hypermutation, PCNAK164R knock-in mice were generated. PCNAK164R/K164R mutants are born at a sub-Mendelian frequency. Although PCNAK164R/K164R B cells proliferate and class switch normally, the mutation spectrum of hypermutated immunoglobulin (Ig) genes alters dramatically. A strong reduction of mutations at template A/T is associated with a compensatory increase at G/C, which is a phenotype similar to polymerase η (Polη) and mismatch repair–deficient B cells. Mismatch recognition, monoubiquitinated PCNA, and Polη likely cooperate in establishing mutations at template A/T during replication of Ig genes.


Blood ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 101 (10) ◽  
pp. 4029-4032 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pablo Oppezzo ◽  
Françoise Vuillier ◽  
Yuri Vasconcelos ◽  
Gérard Dumas ◽  
Christian Magnac ◽  
...  

Abstract In B cells, somatic hypermutation (SHM) and class switch recombination (CSR) depend on the activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) gene product, although the precise mode of action of AID remains unknown. Because some chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) B cells can undergo CSR without SHM, it constitutes a useful model to dissect AID function. In this work, we have studied AID expression, the presence of mutations in the preswitch μ DNA region, CSR, and the SHM in 65 CLL patients. Our results demonstrate that unmutated CLL B cells can constitutively express AID and that AID expression is associated with the presence of mutations in the preswitch region and in clonally related isotype-switched transcripts. They also demonstrate that in CLL without constitutive AID expression, AID induction on stimulation results in preswitch mutations and the CSR process. Our results show a dissociation between SHM and CSR in CLL and suggest that, in this disease, AID would require additional help for carrying out the SHM process.


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