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The Journal of Immunology, Vol 142, Issue 9 3187-3192, Copyright © 1989 by American Association of Immunologists

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Expression of alkaline phosphatase in murine B lymphocytes. Correlation with B cell differentiation into Ig secretion

C Marquez, ML Toribio, MA Marcos, A de la Hera, A Barcena, L Pezzi and C Martinez
Centro de Biologia Molecular, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain.

Alkaline phosphatases (ALPase) (orthophosphoric-monoester phosphohydrolase, EC 3.1.3.1) are implicated in many biologic phenomena including ossification and differentiation of human neutrophils and choriocarcinoma cells. Another trait, demonstrated by microinjection into Xenopus oocytes, is their ability to block the first mitotic division. Previous work in our laboratory has established that ALPase is also present on murine B lymphocytes activated by either polyclonal mitogens or Th cells. We have now characterized the ALPase present on murine B cells as belonging to the liver-bone-kidney isoenzyme and found it to be implicated in B cell differentiation into antibody secretion. Thus, B cell proliferative responses, elicited either by high concentrations of rabbit anti-IgM antibodies or by LPS in the presence of PMA, are characterized by the lack of both antibody secretion and expression of ALPase activity. In contrast, B cells stimulated to differentiate into Ig-secreting cells by B cell differentiation factors, nearly in the absence of a proliferative response, express high levels of ALPase activity, as did those that were LPS-stimulated. These data showing the association of the ALPase expression with the process of B cell differentiation into antibody- secreting cells are discussed in the context of the possible role that phosphorylation-dephosphorylation mechanism may play in controlling the growth/differentiation rate in the B cell lineage.


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