Human pre-B and B cell membrane mu-chains are noncovalently associated with a disulfide-linked complex containing a product of the B29 gene - PubMed (original) (raw)

. 1992 Nov 1;149(9):2857-63.

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Human pre-B and B cell membrane mu-chains are noncovalently associated with a disulfide-linked complex containing a product of the B29 gene

M R Clark et al. J Immunol. 1992.

Abstract

B cell activation after Ag binding to membrane Ig (mIg) is mediated by a complex series of events that involves proximal activation of a tyrosine kinase and phospholipase C. Until recently it was unclear how mIgM and mIgD, with their limited cytoplasmic domains (three amino acids on each H chain), were able to couple to these secondary signal transducers. Studies of murine B cells conducted in several laboratories, including our own, suggest that products of the mb-1 (IgM-alpha or IgD-alpha) and B29 (Ig-beta, Ig-gamma) genes occur as disulfide-linked alpha/beta and alpha/gamma heterodimers that are noncovalently associated with mIgM and mIgD. Although studies utilizing Daudi and Raji cell lines indicate that human mIgM is also associated with a dimer containing the mb-1 gene product, the other molecules associated with the human receptor have not been identified. In this report we characterize the phosphoproteins that are noncovalently associated with mIgM on human tonsillar B cells and human pre-B cell lines. mIgM is noncovalently associated with a disulfide-linked heterodimer composed of variably glycosylated forms of two core proteins with apparent molecular mass of 26.5 and 27 kDa. Western blotting analysis reveals that the lower m.w. component of each of the mIgM-associated heterodimers and its 27-kDa deglycosylated core protein are reactive with antibodies against the murine B29 gene product. Thus, a product of the B29 gene is a component of the AgR complex in human and murine B cells, occurring as a disulfide linked dimer with product(s) of the mb-1 gene. Interestingly, mb-1 and B29 gene products expressed on human cells are much more heterogenously N-glycosylated than their murine B cell counterparts.

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Human pre-B and B cell membrane mu-chains are noncovalently associated with a disulfide-linked complex containing a product of the B29 gene - PubMed (original) (raw)