B cell–helper neutrophils stimulate the diversification and production of immunoglobulin in the marginal zone of the spleen
Open Access
- 25 December 2011
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature Immunology
- Vol. 13 (2), 170-180
- https://doi.org/10.1038/ni.2194
Abstract
Follicular T cells provide help to B cells to elicit antibody responses. Cerutti and colleagues show that neutrophils provide help to marginal-zone B cells that produce T cell–independent antibodies. Neutrophils use immunoglobulins to clear antigen, but their role in immunoglobulin production is unknown. Here we identified neutrophils around the marginal zone (MZ) of the spleen, a B cell area specialized in T cell–independent immunoglobulin responses to circulating antigen. Neutrophils colonized peri-MZ areas after postnatal mucosal colonization by microbes and enhanced their B cell–helper function after receiving reprogramming signals, including interleukin 10 (IL-10), from splenic sinusoidal endothelial cells. Splenic neutrophils induced immunoglobulin class switching, somatic hypermutation and antibody production by activating MZ B cells through a mechanism that involved the cytokines BAFF, APRIL and IL-21. Neutropenic patients had fewer and hypomutated MZ B cells and a lower abundance of preimmune immunoglobulins to T cell–independent antigens, which indicates that neutrophils generate an innate layer of antimicrobial immunoglobulin defense by interacting with MZ B cells.Keywords
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