Affiliation:
1. Randall Centre in Cell and Molecular Biophysics, King’s College London, London, UK
2. MRC Asthma UK Center in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma, London, UK
Abstract
Abstract
It is now generally recognized that bone marrow is the survival niche for antigen-specific plasma cells with long-term immunological memory. These cells release antibodies into the circulation, needed to prime effector cells in the secondary immune response. These antibodies participate in the surveillance for antigen and afford immune defence against pathogens and toxins previously encountered in the primary immune response. IgE antibodies function together with their effector cells, mast cells, to exert ‘immediate hypersensitivity’ in mucosal tissues at the front line of immune defence. The constant supply of IgE antibodies from bone marrow plasma cells allows the rapid ‘recall response’ by mast cells upon re-exposure to antigen even after periods of antigen absence. The speed and sensitivity of the IgE recall response and potency of the effector cell functions are advantageous in the early detection and elimination of pathogens and toxins at the sites of attack. Local antigen provocation also stimulates de novo synthesis of IgE or its precursors of other isotypes that undergo IgE switching in the mucosa. This process, however, introduces a delay before mast cells can be sensitized and resume activity; this is terminated shortly after the antigen is eliminated. Recent results from adaptive immune receptor repertoire sequencing of immunoglobulin genes suggest that the mucosal IgE+ plasmablasts, which have undergone affinity maturation in the course of their evolution in vivo, are a source of long-lived IgE+ plasma cells in the bone marrow that are already fully functional.
Funder
Medical Research Council
GlaxoSmithKline Strategic Alliance Programme
National Institute for Health Research
Biomedical Research Centre
Wellcome Trust
Rosetrees Trust
National Health Service
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Subject
Immunology,General Medicine,Immunology and Allergy
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