The repertoire of somatic antibody mutants accumulating in the memory compartment after primary immunization is restricted through affinity maturation and mirrors that expressed in the secondary response

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The repertoire of somatic antibody mutants accumulating in the memory compartment after primary immunization is restricted through affinity maturation and mirrors that expressed in the secondary response

U Weiss and K Rajewsky
Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, FRG.

The anti-(4-hydroxy-3-nitro-phenyl)acetyl (NP) response is dominated by lambda 1 chain-bearing antibodies expressing the VH gene V186.2 in combination with the D element DFL16.1. lambda 1-positive B cells were isolated from the spleens of mice immunized with NP-chicken gamma globulin 6 wk earlier. Rearranged V186.2 genes were amplified from the genomic DNA of these cells and sequenced. In cases where the rearrangement was typical for secondary anti-NP antibodies, the VHDJH sequences were generally heavily mutated. The frequency and the nature of the nucleotide exchanges mirrored those of secondary response antibodies. V186.2 genes with other rearrangements and V186.2-related genes isolated concomitantly were essentially unmutated. These results demonstrate: (a) that somatic antibody mutants are largely restricted to a small compartment of peripheral B cells, namely, that of memory cells; (b) that the memory compartment is strongly selected for high affinity precursors and largely purged from antigen-binding loss mutants; and (c) that the repertoire of binding specificities expressed in the secondary response is established in its final form before secondary immunization.
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