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Committed Human CD23-Negative Light-Zone Germinal Center B Cells Delineate Transcriptional Program Supporting Plasma Cell Differentiation

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B cell affinity maturation occurs in the germinal center (GC). Light-zone (LZ) GC B cells (B-GC-cells) interact with follicular dendritic cells (FDCs) and compete for the limited, sequential help from T follicular helper cells needed to escape from apoptosis and complete their differentiation. The highest-affinity LZ B-GC-cells enter the cell cycle and differentiate into PCs, following a dramatic epigenetic reorganization that induces transcriptome changes in general and the expression of the PRDM1 gene in particular. Human PC precursors are characterized by the loss of IL-4/STAT6 signaling and the absence of CD23 expression. Here, we studied the fate of human LZ B-GC-cells as a function of their CD23 expression. We first showed that CD23 expression was restricted to the GC LZ, where it was primarily expressed by FDCs; less than 10% of tonsil LZ B-GC-cells were positive. Sorted LZ B-GC-cells left in culture and stimulated upregulated CD23 expression but were unable to differentiate into PCs - in contrast to cells that did not upregulate CD23 expression. An in-depth analysis (including single-cell gene expression) showed that stimulated CD23-negative LZ B-GC-cells differentiated into plasmablasts and time course of gene expression changes delineates the transcriptional program that sustains PC differentiation. In particular, we identified a B cell proliferation signature supported by a transient MYC gene expression. Overall, the CD23 marker might be of value in answering questions about the differentiation of normal B-GC-cells and allowed us to propose an instructive LZ B-GC-cells maturation and fate model.
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Kathleen Santamaria, Fabienne Desmots, Simon Leonard, Gersende Caron, Marion Haas, et al.. Committed Human CD23-Negative Light-Zone Germinal Center B Cells Delineate Transcriptional Program Supporting Plasma Cell Differentiation. Frontiers in Immunology, 2021, 12, ⟨10.3389/fimmu.2021.744573⟩. ⟨hal-03512111⟩
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