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From Schering-Plough, Laboratory for Immunological Research, Dardilly, France
Human CD34+ multilineage progenitor cells (CD34HPC) from cord blood and bone marrow express CD40, a member of the tumor necrosis factor-receptor family present on various hematopoietic and nonhematopoietic cells. As hyper-IgM patients with mutated CD40 ligand (CD40L) exhibit neutropenia, no B cell memory, and altered T cell functions leading to severe infections, we investigated the potential role of CD40 on CD34HPC development. CD40activated cord blood CD34HPC were found to proliferate and differentiate independently of granulocyte/macrophage colony-stimulating factor, into a cell population with prominent dendritic cell (DC) attributes including priming of allogeneic naive T cells. DC generated via the CD40 pathway displayed strong major histocompatibility complex class II DR but lacked detectable CD1a and CD40 expression. These features were shared by a dendritic population identified in situ in tonsillar T cell areas. Taken together, the present data demonstrate that CD40 is functional on CD34HPC and its cross-linking by CD40L+ cells results in the generation of DC that may prime immune reactions during antigen-driven responses to pathogenic invasion, thus providing a link between hematopoiesis, innate, and adaptive immunity.
The CD34+ compartment of human progenitor cells
displays multilineage hematopoietic capacities, including the generation of dendritic cells (DC) (1, 2). Human
CD34+ multilineage progenitor cells (CD34HPC)1 express
CD40 (3), a member of the TNFR/NGFR family instrumental in the activation, growth, and survival of various
hematopoietic and nonhematopoietic cells (4). CD40 ligation induces proliferation and survival of B lymphocytes,
turns on their isotype-switch machinery, and directs the
generation of memory B cells (8). CD40 triggering also
activates monocytes (13), mature DCs (14), endothelial cells (15, 16), fibroblasts (17), and induces cytokine production by thymic endothelial cells (18). However, in addition to mature B cells, only progenitor B cells (19) and fibroblasts have been shown to proliferate under CD40
stimulation.
The importance of CD40-CD40 ligand (CD40L) interactions in vivo has been revealed in hyper-IgM (HIM)
patients bearing a mutated CD40L on T cells (20). As a
consequence, patients suffer from various bacterial and viral
infections as well as from Cryptosporidial diarrhea and Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. These infections may be the
consequence of several primary immunodeficiencies, including defective B cell memory (excess of IgM and low or
absent secondary Ab responses), altered T cell responses,
and neutropenia (25). Because of the prominent link of
CD40 with cell proliferation and differentiation, and because of the defective humoral, cell-mediated immunity
and granulopoietic responses observed in HIM patients, we
engaged into the analysis of CD40 function on CD34HPC.
The data show that CD40 ligation induces CD34HPC to
proliferate and differentiate into cells with dendritic cell attributes.
Cell Cultures.
Mouse fibroblastic Ltk Immunostaining.
Cultured cells resuspended and washed three
times in PBS were left 15 min at 20°C (104 cells in PBS on prewashed BioRad adhesion slides). The following primary antibodies were used for 30 min at 20°C: CD1a (OKT6) from Ortho
Diagnostics (Raritan, NJ), CD1a (IOM6), CD4, CD13, CD19, CD23, CD32, CD33, CD34, CD38, CD40 and CD44 from Immunotech; CD26, CD59, and CD90 from Serotec (Oxford, England); CD32 from Medarex, (West Lebanon, NH); CD14,
CD15, CD16, CD20, CD21, CD80 (B7-1), anti-MHC class II
DR, and isotype control antibodies from Becton-Dickinson (Mountain View, CA); CD43 and CD68 from Dakopatts (Glostrup, Denmark); CD74 from The Binding Site (Birmingham, England); CD86 (B7-2) from PharMingen (San Diego, CA); antiMHC class I from SeraLab (Sussex, England); anti-relB from
Santa Cruz Biotechnology (Santa Cruz, CA); recombinant HIVgp120 from Neosystem (Strasbourg, France); anti-NGFR from
Boehringer-Mannheim (Federal Republic of Germany). CD45,
CD60, anti-pan cadherin, and anti-heat shock protein (HSP60) antibodies were from Sigma Immunochemicals. Secondary step
antibodies included biotinylated sheep anti-mouse IgG, IgA, and
IgM (The Binding Site), biotinylated goat anti-rabbit (Dako) and
streptavidin-alkaline phosphatase from Tago-Immunologicals (Camarillo, CA). For assessing HIV binding to DC, recombinant HIVgp120-FITC (Neosystem) was used, followed by a biotinylated
mouse mAb to FITC (Sigma) and streptavidin-alkaline phosphatase (Tago). For intracytoplasmic staining, saponin at 0.33% in
PBS was used throughout the staining protocol. Color was developed using a Fast Red developing System (Dako). For in situ
analysis, immunohistochemical staining of acetone-fixed cryostat sections (8 µm) was performed by incubation with primary antibodies to CD1a (IgG1, Immunotech), CD40 (IgG1, mAb 89),
followed by anti-mouse IgG1 and mouse APAAP or to MHC
class II DR (IgG2b), a biotinylated anti-mouse IgG2b mAb, and
streptavidin peroxidase. The alkaline phosphatase was revealed using Fast Blue as a chromogen (blue color) and the peroxidase was
developed by 3-amino-9-ethyl carbazole (red color).
Cell Cycle Analysis of CD34HPC.
Freshly prepared CD34HPC
or CD34HPC cultured for 3 d onto CD32 or CD40L-transfected
fibroblasts were gently resuspended, washed and incubated with
5 µg/ml of Hoechst 33342 (Calbiochem Novabiochem, La Jolla,
CA) during 45 min at room temperature to quantitate cycling
cells. Hoechst-stained cells were subsequently labeled with a
MoAb to CD34, washed, and analyzed in a FACSTAR® flow cytometer (Becton-Dickinson).
MLR.
To test their allostimulatory properties, CD40-derived
DC obtained at day 14 as previously described were irradiated
(6,000 rads), seeded at different concentrations, and incubated
with 2 × 104 cord blood-derived CD4+ T cells obtained from a
different donor. CD4+ T cells were prepared from the mononuclear cell fraction by negative selection using a cocktail of antibodies to CD8, CD14, CD16, CD19, CD20, CD40, and MHC
class II DR. Proliferation of naive T cells is expressed as incorporation of tritiated thymidine at day 5.
Limiting Dilution Assay.
CD34HPC were seeded at a density
of 1, 10, or 100 cells/well in round-bottomed microtiter plates at
a final volume of 100 µl either onto irradiated CD40L+ L cells or
with GM-CSF (100 ng/ml)/TNF (2.5 ng/ml). After 12 d of culture, the number of wells with cell growth and the wells that
contained cells with recognizable DC morphology, respectively, were scored. For each condition, a total number of 60 wells were seeded with 100 CD34HPC/well and 600 wells were seeded
with 10 or 1 CD34HPC/well. One plate containing CD40L To investigate the potential role of the CD40 molecule on
CD34HPC, progenitor cells were cultured over CD40Ltransfected fibroblasts (CD40L cells/CD40L system), (10, 14)
or on CD32-transfected cells as control. CD40L-activated
CD34HPC entered into DNA synthesis, as measured by
tritiated thymidine incorporation that peaked around day 8 and declined by day 15 (Fig. 1 A). CD40-triggered proliferation of progenitor cells was specific, because it was prevented by antibodies to CD40 and CD40L but not by isotype-matched control antibodies (Fig. 1 B and E ). The
observed DNA synthesis reflected actual cell proliferation
(Fig. 1 E) with a mean 10-fold increase in viable cells observed at day 8 (four independent experiments). In contrast, there was no or only marginal increase in proliferation of CD34HPC cultured over control CD32-transfected
cells (CD32 L cells; Fig. 1 A, B, E). Double labeling with
Hoechst 33342 and CD34 MoAb to assess the cell cycle of
CD34HPC confirmed the quiescent status of these cells
when freshly isolated (data not shown). After 3 d of culture
over control CD32 L cells, few CD34HPC were cycling (Fig.
1 C ). By contrast, a significant proportion of CD34HPC
were found in cycle when stimulated for 3 d by CD40L
(Fig. 1 D). However, at 24 h (data not shown), the percentage of cycling cells in CD40L cultures was only marginally higher than that of control cultures, indicating that
CD40L probably recruits a small proportion of CD34+
cells whose cycling progeny accumulates with time.
8-d cultures of CD34HPC on CD32L cells yielded
small round mononuclear cells morphologically comparable to fresh CD34HPC (Fig. 2 a), whereas CD34HPC cultured over CD40L L cells revealed small clusters of 10-50
cells displaying long cytoplasmic projections (Fig. 2 b).
These clusters grew progressively in size releasing individual cells (Fig. 2, c and d ) that, by day 14, exhibited long
delicate and highly motile cytoplasmic processes (Fig. 2, c
and d, 15-s interval). Cytocentrifugation and Giemsa staining of CD40L-cultured CD34HPC revealed that a proportion of cells displayed numerous and long dendrites (Fig. 2
e). A detailed immunophenotypic analysis of CD40-generated DC at day 14 showed high levels of MHC class II DR
antigen (Fig. 2 i), and the costimulatory molecules B7-1
(CD80) and B7-2 (CD86) (Table 1). At variance with
GM-CSF/TNF-derived DC, CD40-derived DC were negative for CD1a and CD40 (Table 1). Interestingly, CD40generated DC expressed high levels of the transactivating factor rel-B (Fig. 2 h), associated with mature DC but absent from dendritic Langerhans cells (26). A small proportion of CD40-derived DC could bind recombinant HIVgp120 (Fig. 2 f ) and expressed CD26 (Fig. 2 g). Occasional
DC exhibited beaded dendrites reminiscent of those observed
on follicular dendritic cells associated with iccosome release
(Fig. 2 g) (27). The nondendritic population from CD40L
cultures were nongranulocytic monocyte-like cells as determined by May-Grünwald-Giemsa staining (data not shown). Independent analysis of five different CD34HPC samples cultured 14 d over CD40L cells demonstrated 29.9% ± 1.4%
motile cells by phase contrast microscopy, 37.4% ± 3.7% cells
with dendrites by Giemsa staining, and 39.6% ± 3.6% DC
with strong HLA DR expression (data not shown). Taken
together, these results demonstrate that a population of
CD34HPC can differentiate into DC after CD40 triggering.
Table 1.
Comparative Phenotype of CD40 versus GM-CSF/
TNF-derived DC
cells obtained from
American Type Culture Collection (Rockville, MD) and transfected with either CD40L (CD40L cells/CD40L system) or with
CD32 as control (CD32L cells), were prepared as previously
described (10, 14). Cultured fibroblastic cells were detached,
washed, irradiated (7,000 rads), and counted to seed 5,000 cells in
100 µl of culture medium (CM) per well in flat-bottomed 96well culture plates. Human CD34+ progenitor cells were purified
from cord blood of normal full-term deliveries according to institutional guidelines. In brief, mononuclear cells obtained by centrifugation on Ficoll-HyPaque were sequentially labeled with a
sterile endotoxin-free murine mAb to CD34 (IOM34; Immunotech, Marseille, France) and with filtered magnetic microbeads (MiniMacs; Miltenyi Biotec, Bergish-Gladbach, Germany). Labeled cells were selected by two passages through a magnetic separation column (MiniMacs Separation Column; Miltenyi Biotec),
and then thoroughly washed and seeded for culture. Yielding of
CD34+ cells ranged from 0.3% to 1.3% of the total mononuclear
cell initial population and final purity was
98% as confirmed by
flow cytometry and immunocytochemistry performed on cytospins
and BioRad slides (BioRad, Munich, Germany). CD34+ selected
cells thus scored negative for lineage-restricted markers (CD3,
CD4, CD14, CD15, CD16, CD19, CD20, CD23, CD33) and
were homogeneous small mononuclear cells with scant cytoplasm. 5 × 103 CD34+ cells were seeded in 100 µl/well onto
equal amounts of irradiated murine fibroblastic L cells transfected
either with CD40L or with CD32 as control, or in CM alone
prepared with RPMI-1640 supplemented with 10% heat-inactivated FCS plus antibiotics. To estimate CD34HPC proliferation
after defined time periods, cultured cells were either thoroughly
resuspended to quantitate the number of viable cells by exclusion
of Trypan blue, or pulsed overnight with1 µCi of [3H]thymidine
and harvested in triplicates. To assess the production of DC, 105
CD34HPC were plated onto 5 × 104 irradiated L cells (CD40L L
cells or CD32 L cells as controls), in 48-well culture plates, in a
final volume of 500 µl of culture medium. At the time periods
indicated, cultured cells were resuspended to score the proportion
of DC. To assess the specificity of the system, neutralizing antibodies to CD40 (mAb 89), CD40L (LL48) (both from our laboratory), to granulocyte/macrophage colony-stimulating factor
(GM-CSF) (mAb 23B6, provided by Dr. J. Abrams, DNAX,
Palo Alto, CA), or isotype control antibodies (Sigma Immunochemicals, St. Louis, MO) were added to the cultures. The presence of
DC was assessed by four well-established criteria: morphology,
mobility, phenotype, and function. DC were then scored on BioRad adhesion slides following staining with anti-MHC class II
DR antibody. In addition, an evaluation was performed on May-
Grünwald-Giemsa stained cytospin preparations. Criteria for DC
identification included both clearly defined filiform cytoplasmic
projections and strong class II DR positivity. Cells showing only
pseudopod-like appearance were not considered as DC.
fibroblastic cells was seeded with 100 CD34HPC/well and used as
a negative control.
CD40 Ligation Induces Proliferation of CD34HPC.
Fig. 1.
CD40 ligation induces proliferation of human CD34+ progenitor cells. (A) Kinetics, (B, E) specificity, (C, D) cell cycle analysis. CD34HPC cultured as described in Materials and Methods were either pulsed overnight with 1 µCi of [3H]thymidine (A, B) or counted by Trypan blue exclusion (E). Experiments shown are representative of three experiments and data are presented as mean cpm ± SD (A and B) and cell
numbers per ml ± SD (E), as determined in triplicate wells. For quantitating recovery of viable cells, 105 progenitor cells (indicated by horizontal line in medium control bar) were seeded in 1.0 ml of culture medium
onto 105 CD40L+ cells or control CD32 cells. Results were evaluated at
days 4, 8, and 15 (A) or at day 8 only (B, E). Where indicated, cultures were supplemented with mAbs to CD40 (mAb 89), CD40L (mAb LL48), or isotype-matched control antibodies. (C, D) Cell cycle analysis. CD34HPC freshly isolated (data not shown) or cultured either on CD32L
(C) or CD40L-transfected fibroblasts (D) for 3 d were resuspended and
incubated with Hoechst 33342. To quantitate specifically CD34HPC entering into cycle, Hoechst-stained cells were subsequently labeled with a
mAb to CD34, washed, and analyzed with a FACSTAR+® flow cytometer.
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Fig. 2.
Morphology and phenotype of CD40-activated CD34+HPC and in situ localization of CD1a/CD40
, DR+ DC. CD34+ HPC prepared
as described were seeded onto control (CD32L cells) cultures (a) or onto CD40L (CD40L-L cells) cultures (b-i) and evaluated at days 8 (a and b) and days
14 (c-i). Photomicrographs were taken from cells in culture wells (a-d) at ×200 (a and b) and ×400 (c and d) magnification, and from cytospin preparations (e) or from BioRad slides ( f-i ) at ×1,000 magnification. In (c) and (d), the same field was taken at a 15-s interval to show dendrite motility. (e) May-
Grünwald staining of DC. ( f ) HIV-gp120 binding. (g) shows a CD26+ DC. (h) A rel-B+ DC together with a rel-B
, nondendritic cell. (i) MHC class II
DR+ DC. ( j and k) Tonsil sections stained for CD1a and CD40 (both in blue) and MHC class II DR (red) showing single DR+, CD1a
and CD40
DC
scattered in the T cell area. ( j ) ×400 magnification and (k) ×1,000 magnification.
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CD40-DC
GM-CSF/TNF-DC
CD1a
++
CD2
CD4
± (sb)
++
CD14
CD15
CD16
CD19
CD20
CD21
CD23
CD26
+++
ND
CD32
++
CD34
CD40
++
CD43
+++
++
CD44
++
CD45
+++
++
CD59
++
CD68
+ (sb)
CD74
++
++
CD80
+
++
CD86
++
++
CD90
Pan-Cadherin
+
ND
NGFR
+++
HSP60
++
ND
MHC class II
+++
+++
MHC class I
+++
+++
rel-B
+++
+
Phenotype of CD40-derived DC, comparison to GM-CSF/TNFderived DC. 104 DC harvested at day 14 were deposited onto BioRad
slides to perform immunostaining. Culture conditions, preparation of
cells, and staining procedures as described in Fig. 2. For intracytoplasmic
staining, saponin at 0.33% in PBS was used throughout the staining protocol. Cells were scored as positive when a clearer and stronger staining
than that of control antibodies was observed. Reactivity with the different antibodies tested was scored as (
) negative, (±) weak, (+) modest,
(++) intermediate, to strong (+++), based on staining intensity. In
addition, (sb) indicates reactivity only with a subset (<50%) of the DC.
Immunohistochemical analysis of secondary lymphoid
tissue (tonsils) revealed the presence of MHC class II DR+,
CD1a and CD40
cells, with clear dendritic morphology,
scattered through the T cell areas where interdigitating cells
congregate (Fig. 2, j and k). These findings identify a correlate population in situ, precisely in the area where mature
DC localize to interact with low frequency Ag-specific
T cells in vivo.
Kinetic followup of CD40 stimulated CD34HPC
indicated early emergence of DC in cultures with 6% identifiable DC at day 4, 16% at day 8, and a maximum 36% by
day 14 (Fig. 3 A). As observed for proliferation, DC generation was specific for CD40 engagement, because antibodies to either CD40 or CD40L efficiently blocked their appearance, whereas isotype-matched control antibodies were ineffective (Fig. 3 B). Of note is the fact that a soluble fusion protein constructed with CD40L and CD8 (sCD40L)
was also capable of inducing development of DC. However, the soluble product was less effective than polyvalently immobilized CD40L, especially regarding dendrite
development (data not shown). Interestingly, neutralizing
anti-GM-CSF antibodies did not affect the CD40L-dependent generation of DC (Fig. 3 B), which contrasts with
previous studies in vitro where DC generation was strictly
dependent on addition of GM-CSF (1, 28).
Clonal Analysis of CD34HPC Stimulated Through CD40.
Limiting dilution assays scored with an inverted microscope after 12 d of culturing CD34HPC first confirmed that control CD32-transfected fibroblasts alone do not promote generation of DC, even at the highest number of progenitor cells (100) plated per well (Table 2). By contrast, cultures over CD40L L cells induced the generation of clones containing DC (as determined by typical morphology) in 3% of the wells seeded at 1 cell/well, a proportion that increased to 10% and 36% when 10 and 100 CD34HPC were seeded per well, respectively. Parallel experiments with GM-CSF-treated CD34HPC showed that this cytokine was at least twice as efficient as CD40L in generating DC in vitro (Table 2).
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DC, unlike monocytes or lymphocytes, display the unique property of vigorously stimulating the proliferation of naive T cells (28). As few as 300 CD40L-cultured CD34HPC were able to induce naive
CD4+ cord blood T cells (ratio 1/66) to enter into DNA
synthesis and 3,000 CD40L-derived DC (ratio 1/6.6) increased T cell thymidine incorporation by 250-fold (Fig.
4). In contrast, freshly isolated or IL-3-cultured CD34HPC
are unable to induce naive T cell proliferation (1). Thus, in
addition to their morphology, motility and phenotype, cells generated by CD40 ligation of CD34HPC possess the
antigen-presenting capacity of DC.
The present study demonstrates that CD40 ligation of cord blood CD34HPC results in their proliferation and subsequent differentiation into DC.
DC generation was not dependent on the fibroblasts
themselves, because CD40L Ltk
cells transfected with
CD32 were uneffective. This was further corroborated by
using a soluble CD40L-CD8 fusion protein that also permitted the production of DC (data not shown), though, as observed for B cell functions (our unpublished observations), this reagent was less efficient than cell-bound CD40L,
especially for dendrite development.
CD34HPC were observed to be cycling in response to CD40L triggering at day 3 of culture, but not at day 1. This suggests that only a minor proportion of CD34HPC may be driven into cycle and that the cycling population identified by day 3 results from accumulation of the initially recruited progenitors. The low clone numbers obtained by limiting dilution in response to CD40L is consistent with the observed cell cycle kinetics. Limiting dilution analysis also indicates that CD40L by itself is less efficient than the combination of GM-CSF/TNF to generate DC.
In accordance with the latter finding, a comparative analysis of bulk cultures of cord blood CD34+ progenitors showed that GM-CSF/TNF results in a considerably higher cell expansion (34.0 ± 16.0-fold; n = 10) than does CD40 triggering (8.3 ± 2.7 fold; n = 5). In keeping with differences observed between the two in vitro derived DC populations, the presently described DC, although clearly able to stimulate allogeneic naive T cells, appear less potent stimulators on a cell-to-cell basis than the DC obtained in GM-CSF/TNF cultures (Caux, C., and J. Banchereau, unpublished data). This observation may be related to the lack of detectable CD40 on the CD40-derived DC as compared with GM-CSF/TNF-derived cells (Table 1).
Although DC migratory routes and tissue residence are relatively well known (32, 33), their precise ontogeny is poorly understood. GM-CSF is considered an essential requirement for generation of DC, whether from CD34HPC (1, 29) or from monocytic cells (30, 31, 34). However, our findings suggest an alternative GM-CSF-independent pathway of DC ontogeny, the existence of which was indeed revealed by the normal DC status of mice with inactivated GM-CSF or GM-CSF-receptor genes (35, 36). However, at this stage, the possibility that CD40 stimulation may trigger the production of other endogenous cytokines relevant for inducing DC differentiation from progenitor cells (i.e., kit-ligand/TNF), cannot be ruled out.
Interestingly, in a recent immunohistological study of two HIM patients, interdigitating cells (IDCs) (referred to as S100+ cells) in lymph node paracortex are reported as being normal in one case, but as being rare in the second patient (37). Although the topographic distribution and exact phenotype of DC subsets in HIM patients requires further analysis, it is possible that CD40-derived DC represent a distinct subpopulation of mature DC with a putative particular function. The notion that the DC lineage is constituted of discrete subsets (28, 38) may be in accordance with our in vivo finding of a DC population that phenotypically mirrors the CD40-derived DC. Moreover, the in situ localization of these cells in the T cell/IDC-rich area would also be consistent with a more mature status of the CD40-derived DC, as suggested by lack of CD1a and the strong expression of rel-B.
The altered CD40L from HIM patients and from genetargeted mice results in disrupted interactions between T cells and DC that may be the cause of deficient T cell priming (42), explaining perturbed T cell responses such as frequent Cryptosporidium and Pneumocystis carinii infections (43, 44) and susceptibility to Leishmania (45). Furthermore, unproductive CD40L interactions with CD40 on monocytes (13) or stromal cells (18) may result in decreased production of hematopoietic growth factors, which thus may explain the frequent neutropenia associated with HIM syndrome.
The existence of a CD40L-dependent pathway of DC development calls for the identification of the CD40L+ partner. CD40L+-activated T cells represent an obvious candidate, a possibility that would be consistent with the T cell secretion of hematopoietic growth factors (including the T cell-specific IL-3), the presence of T cells in the bone marrow (48), and the various hematopoietic abnormalities observed in T cell-deficient animals and humans (51). Recirculating CD34HPC may also encounter CD40L+ mast cells (54) in peripheral tissues, thereby contributing to extramedullary DC production. In keeping with this, DC may also be generated by contact with CD40L+ T cells outside bone marrow, e.g., at the sites of inflammation where chemokines are released and may attract the progenitors.
Taken together, our findings indicate that a novel CD40dependent pathway of DC generation may be operating when activated CD40L+ T cells encounter CD34HPC. This would provide an alternative and probably a necessarily redundant DC pathway to satisfy the increased DC demands required for the appropriate priming to immune responses during pathogenic invasion. CD40-CD40L interactions, thus, may represent an important link between hematopoiesis, innate, and adaptive immunity.
Address correspondence to Dr. Leopoldo Flores-Romo, Schering-Plough, 27 Chemin des Peupliers, BP 11, 69571 Dardilly, France.
Received for publication 27 August 1996
1Abbreviations used in this paper: CD34HPC, human CD34 multilineage progenitor cells; CM, culture medium; DC, dendritic cells; HIM, hyper IgM; IDCs, interdigitating cells; NGFR, nerve growth-factor receptor.The authors thank S. Ait-Yahia and I. Durand for excellent technical assistance, Dr. Y.-J. Liu and Dr. C. Caux for helpful discussions, Dr. K. Bacon and Dr. J. Chiller for critically reading the manuscript, and S. Bonnet-Arnaud and M. Vatan for their editorial assistance.
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