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2018 Fiscal Year Research-status Report

Elucidation of the cause of allergy by identifying somatic mutations in human IgE+ memory B cells.

Research Project

Project/Area Number 18K16162
Research InstitutionNational Center for Global Health and Medicine

Principal Investigator

NguyenTien Dat  国立研究開発法人国立国際医療研究センター, その他部局等, 上級研究員 (50750270)

Project Period (FY) 2018-04-01 – 2020-03-31
KeywordsAllergy / B cells / IgE
Outline of Annual Research Achievements

It has been largely unknown how IgE production is regulated and how IgE B-cell memory is generated in allergic patients. However, there are technical limitations in identifying rare IgE+ B cells, especially in humans. Adopting the Fas-mediated Ag-specific iGB cell selection (FAIS) system, I have developed a system to selectively expand IgE+ B cells by a four-step B cell culture procedure. 1) Culture with IL-21 on feeder cells expressing exogenous CD40L and BAFF (40LB). 2) Stimulation culture on 40LB cells expressing FcεR1 to stimulate IgE+ iGB cells. 3) Selection culture on 40LB cells expressing the Fas ligand: all but IgE+ iGB cells undergo apoptosis. 4) Recovery culture on 40LB cells. Starting with blood B cells of hay fever allergic donors, I successfully obtained almost pure population of IgE+ B cells with this procedure in combination with cell sorting. I will search for such mutations in genomic genes of mIgE+ Bm cells by comparing with non-B leukocytes from the same patients of various allergic diseases, using whole exome sequencing
I have also identified 2 species of mRNA of membrane-bound εH chain: one encoding the conventional εH chain with an extracellular membrane-proximal domain (EMPD) and transmembrane domains, and the other lacking these domains but containing C-terminal peptide with a shifted reading frame, termed IgE-NET. The IgE-NET facilitated spontaneous plasma-cell differentiation and apoptosis of IgE+ B cells more than conventional IgE, and thus may contribute to the regulation of IgE+ B cells and of IgE synthesis in allergic disease.

Current Status of Research Progress
Current Status of Research Progress

2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.

Reason

The project progressing is smooth as the plan.

Strategy for Future Research Activity

The research is focusing on two subjects:
1 Finding and analyzing gene abnormality in mIgE+ Bm cells from allergic patients.
I will continue searching for causal somatic gene abnormalities in allergic patients that enable mIgE+ B cells to survive and to become memory B (Bm) cells or long-lived plasma cells (LLPCs), and verify the functions of such abnormal genes in the autonomous mIgE signaling that forces IgE+ germinal center (GC) B cells to be short-lived plasma cells, and in pathogenesis of allergy.
2 Analyzing the function of IgE-NET
I am elucidating the function of a novel IgE εH chain isoform, namely IgE-NET, an alternative splicing variant that I have identified. I will examine which form of εH chain mRNA is expressed in IgE+ B cells induced with IL-4 from IgM+ B cells of healthy donor. I will also examine the IgE-NET function by check ER stress pathway gene expression in mIgE+ B cells from patients and IL-4 induced IgE+ from healthy donors. If IgE-NET has a function, the next question is how RNA splicing is regulated to synthesize the IgE-NET mRNA.

  • Research Products

    (1 results)

All 2018

All Presentation (1 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results)

  • [Presentation] Therapeutic potential of Tumor-infiltrating B cells2018

    • Author(s)
      Shohei Asami, Nguyen Tien Dat, Xinying Wang, Dominika Papiernik, Toshihiro Suzuki, Tetsuya Nakatsura, Daisuke Kitamura
    • Organizer
      The 47th Annual meeting of the Japanese Society for Immunology
    • Int'l Joint Research

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Published: 2019-12-27  

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