PUBLICATION
Zebrafish B Cell Development without a Pre-B Cell Stage, Revealed by CD79 Fluorescence Reporter Transgenes
- Authors
- Liu, X., Li, Y.S., Shinton, S.A., Rhodes, J., Tang, L., Feng, H., Jette, C.A., Look, A.T., Hayakawa, K., Hardy, R.R.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-170726-12
- Date
- 2017
- Source
- Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 199(5): 1706-1715 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Feng, Hui, Jette, Cicely A., Liu, Xingjun, Look, A. Thomas, Rhodes, Jennifer
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Animals, Genetically Modified
- B-Lymphocytes/physiology*
- CD79 Antigens/genetics
- CD79 Antigens/metabolism*
- Cell Differentiation
- Cloning, Molecular
- DNA-Binding Proteins/genetics
- Fish Proteins/genetics
- Fish Proteins/metabolism*
- Genes, Reporter/genetics
- Green Fluorescent Proteins/genetics
- Immunoglobulin Heavy Chains/genetics
- Immunoglobulin Heavy Chains/metabolism
- Immunoglobulin Light Chains/genetics
- Immunoglobulin Light Chains/metabolism
- Kidney/physiology*
- Lymphocyte Activation
- Precursor Cells, B-Lymphoid/physiology*
- Transgenes/genetics
- Zebrafish/immunology*
- Zebrafish Proteins/genetics
- PubMed
- 28739882 Full text @ J. Immunol.
Citation
Liu, X., Li, Y.S., Shinton, S.A., Rhodes, J., Tang, L., Feng, H., Jette, C.A., Look, A.T., Hayakawa, K., Hardy, R.R. (2017) Zebrafish B Cell Development without a Pre-B Cell Stage, Revealed by CD79 Fluorescence Reporter Transgenes. Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950). 199(5):1706-1715.
Abstract
CD79a and CD79b proteins associate with Ig receptors as integral signaling components of the B cell Ag receptor complex. To study B cell development in zebrafish, we isolated orthologs of these genes and performed in situ hybridization, finding that their expression colocalized with IgH-μ in the kidney, which is the site of B cell development. CD79 transgenic lines were made by linking the promoter and upstream regulatory segments of CD79a and CD79b to enhanced GFP to identify B cells, as demonstrated by PCR analysis of IgH-μ expression in sorted cells. We crossed these CD79-GFP lines to a recombination activating gene (Rag)2:mCherry transgenic line to identify B cell development stages in kidney marrow. Initiation of CD79:GFP expression in Rag2:mCherry+ cells and the timing of Ig H and L chain expression revealed simultaneous expression of both IgH-μ- and IgL-κ-chains, without progressing through the stage of IgH-μ-chain alone. Rag2:mCherry+ cells without CD79:GFP showed the highest Rag1 and Rag2 mRNAs compared with CD79a and CD79b:GFP+ B cells, which showed strongly reduced Rag mRNAs. Thus, B cell development in zebrafish does not go through a Raghi CD79+IgH-μ+ pre-B cell stage, different from mammals. After the generation of CD79:GFP+ B cells, decreased CD79 expression occurred upon differentiation to Ig secretion, as detected by alteration from membrane to secreted IgH-μ exon usage, similar to in mammals. This confirmed a conserved role for CD79 in B cell development and differentiation, without the requirement of a pre-B cell stage in zebrafish.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping