Congenital T cell activation impairs transitional to follicular B cell maturation in humans

Abstract CTLA4-deficient patients exhibit profound humoral immune dysfunction, yet the basis for the B cell defect is not known. We observed a marked reduction in transitional to follicular B cell development in CTLA4-deficient patients, correlating with decreased CTLA4 function in regulatory T cells and increased mTORC1 signaling in transitional B cells. Treatment of transitional B cells with CD40L was sufficient to induce mTORC1 signaling and inhibit follicular B cell maturationin vitro. Frequent cell-cell contacts between CD40L+T cells and naïve IgD+CD27−B cells were observed in patient lymph nodes. Follicular B cell maturation in CTLA-deficient patients was partially rescued following CTLA4 replacement therapyin vivo. We conclude that functional regulatory T cells and the containment of excessive T cell activation are required for follicular B cells to mature and attain metabolic quiescence and thus acquire a state of immunological self-tolerance.One Sentence Summary Congenital T cell activation in CTLA4-deficient patients impairs transitional to follicular B cell maturation and can be rescued by CTLA4 replacement therapyin vivo..

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Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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bioRxiv.org - (2024) vom: 13. Feb. Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2024

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Allard-Chamard, Hugues [VerfasserIn]
Hillier, Kirsty [VerfasserIn]
Ramseier, Michelle L. [VerfasserIn]
Bertocchi, Alice [VerfasserIn]
Kaneko, Naoki [VerfasserIn]
Premo, Katherine [VerfasserIn]
Lam, Tiffany [VerfasserIn]
Yuen, Grace [VerfasserIn]
Karpel, Marshall [VerfasserIn]
Mahajan, Vinay S. [VerfasserIn]
Tsekeri, Christina [VerfasserIn]
Vencic, Jean [VerfasserIn]
Crotty, Rory [VerfasserIn]
Sharda, Anish [VerfasserIn]
Barmettler, Sara [VerfasserIn]
Westermann-Clark, Emma [VerfasserIn]
Walter, Jolan E. [VerfasserIn]
Ghebremichael, Musie [VerfasserIn]
Shalek, Alex K. [VerfasserIn]
Farmer, Jocelyn R. [VerfasserIn]
Pillai, Shiv [VerfasserIn]

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Biology

doi:

10.1101/2024.02.08.579495

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XBI042483859