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The AID-Cre-ERT2 Model: A Tool for Monitoring B Cell Immune Responses and Generating Selective Hybridomas

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Expression of activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) is the hallmark of B cells engaged in an immune response in germinal centers. We designed an inducible fate-mapping reporter mouse in which AID-expressing B cells could be timely and irreversibly marked, by knockin at the Aicda locus of a tamoxifen-inducible Cre recombinase. This mouse model allows notably for the long-term follow-up of memory B cells and plasma cells engaged in an immune response. We describe here a protocol to generate hybridomas from small memory subsets that can be easily traced and identified in this mouse line through Cre-activated fluorescent reporters.
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hal-01560459 , version 1 (11-07-2017)

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Simon Le Gallou, Takuya Nojima, Daisuke Kitamura, Jean-Claude Weill, Claude-Agnès Reynaud. The AID-Cre-ERT2 Model: A Tool for Monitoring B Cell Immune Responses and Generating Selective Hybridomas. Methods in Molecular Biology, 2017, 1623, pp.243-251. ⟨10.1007/978-1-4939-7095-7_19⟩. ⟨hal-01560459⟩
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