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Survival of Igα-Deficient Mature B Cells Requires BAFF-R Function.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) - 1 Mar 2016
Levit-Zerdoun Ella, Becker Martin, Pohlmeyer Roland, Wilhelm Isabel, Maity Palash Chandra, Rajewsky Klaus, Reth Michael, Hobeika Elias
Abstract excerpt
Expression of a functional BCR is essential for the development of mature B cells and has been invoked in the control of their maintenance. To test this maintenance function in a new experimental setting, we used the tamoxifen-inducible mb1-CreER(T2) mouse strain to delete or truncate either the mb-1 gene encoding the BCR signaling subunit Igα or the VDJ segment of the IgH (H chain [HC]). In this system,...
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