Mismatch Repair Deficiency Interferes with the Accumulation of Mutations in Chronically Stimulated B Cells and Not with the Hypermutation Process

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• 作者：Sté ; phane Frey ; Barbara Bertocci ; Fré ; dé ; ric Delbos ; Laurent Quint ; Jean-Claude Weill ; Claude-Agnè ; s Reynaud
• 刊名：Immunity
• 出版年：1998
• 出版时间：1 July 1998
• 年：1998
• 卷：9
• 期：1
• 页码：127-134
• 全文大小：175 K

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Primary responses to the hapten phenyloxazolone and chronic responses to environmental antigens occuring in Peyer’s patches were analyzed in two different mismatch repair–deficient backgrounds. Paradoxically, whereas primary responses were found normal in MSH2- and only slightly diminished in PMS2-deficient mice, mutations in Peyer’s patch B cells from both k.o. animals were reduced three times, the subset of Peyer’s patch B cells with highly mutated sequences being specifically missing in the mismatch repair–deficient context. Strikingly, germinal center B cells from Peyer’s patches of k.o. animals showed microsatellite instability at an unprecedented level. We thus propose that the amount of DNA damages generated prevents these cells from recycling in germinal centers and that mismatch repair deficiency is only the indirect cause of the lower mutation incidence observed.