Insights into B-cell ontogeny inferred from human immunology.
European journal of immunology(2023)
Abstract
Due to ontogenetic changes in B-cell developmental lineages, the mature B-cell compartment constitutes by functionally different B-cell subsets that emerged from prenatal, early postnatal or adult precursors. While negative selection processes operate primarily within the framework of B-cell tolerance checkpoints during B-cell development, further differentiation into distinct B-cell subsets is additionally induced by positive selection. In addition to endogenous antigens, contact with microbial antigens is also involved in this selection process, with intestinal commensals having a significant influence on the development of a large layer within the B-cell compartment. The decisive threshold that triggers negative selection seems to be relaxed during fetal B-cell development, thereby allowing recruitment of polyreactive and also autoreactive B-cell clones into the mature naïve B-cell compartment. Almost all of the concepts on B-cell ontogeny are based on observations in laboratory mice that not only differ from humans in their developmental timeline but also in their composition of commensal microorganisms or rather a lack of exposure to these. In this review, we summarize conceptual findings on B-cell ontogeny and particularly describe key insights into the developing human B-cell compartment and immunoglobulin repertoire formation.
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Key words
B cell,B-1 cells,Immunoglobulin repertoire,Marginal zone B cell,Ontogeny
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