eprintid: 1394756 rev_number: 39 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/01/39/47/56 datestamp: 2013-06-04 15:26:57 lastmod: 2021-10-25 00:04:50 status_changed: 2013-06-04 15:26:57 type: article metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 0 creators_name: Nduati, EW creators_name: Ng, DHL creators_name: Ndungu, FM creators_name: Gardner, P creators_name: Urban, BC creators_name: Langhorne, J title: Distinct Kinetics of Memory B-Cell and Plasma-Cell Responses in Peripheral Blood Following a Blood-Stage Plasmodium chabaudi Infection in Mice ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B02 divisions: C07 note: © 2010 Nduati et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. This work was supported by the Medical Research Council, UK (File reference, U117584248). Eunice W. Nduati was the recipient of a BioMalPar PhD fellowship, Dorothy H. L. Ng is a recipient of an A*STAR MBBS-PhD National Science Scholarship (A*STAR, Singapore) and Peter Gardner a recipient of an MRC PhD studentship. Britta Urban is supported by a Wellcome Trust Senior Fellowship (Grant number 07908). This work is part of the activities of the BioMalPar European Network of Excellence supported by a European grant (LSHP-CT-2004-503578) from the Priority 1 “Life Sciences, Genomics and Biotechnology for Health” in the sixth framework, and Evimalar European Network of Excellence in the seventh Framework. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. abstract: B cell and plasma cell responses take place in lymphoid organs, but because of the inaccessibility of these organs, analyses of human responses are largely performed using peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC). To determine whether PBMC are a useful source of memory B cells and plasma cells in malaria, and whether they reflect Plasmodium-specific B cell responses in spleen or bone marrow, we have investigated these components of the humoral response in PBMC using a model of Plasmodium chabaudi blood-stage infections in C57BL/6 mice. We detected memory B cells, defined as isotype-switched IgD− IgM− CD19+ B cells, and low numbers of Plasmodium chabaudi Merozoite Surface Protein-1 (MSP1)-specific memory B cells, in PBMC at all time points sampled for up to 90 days following primary or secondary infection. By contrast, we only detected CD138+ plasma cells and MSP1-specific antibody-secreting cells within a narrow time frame following primary (days 10 to 25) or secondary (day 10) infection. CD138+ plasma cells in PBMC at these times expressed CD19, B220 and MHC class II, suggesting that they were not dislodged bone-marrow long-lived plasma cells, but newly differentiated migratory plasmablasts migrating to the bone marrow; thus reflective of an ongoing or developing immune response. Our data indicates that PBMC can be a useful source for malaria-specific memory B cells and plasma cells, but extrapolation of the results to human malaria infections suggests that timing of sampling, particularly for plasma cells, may be critical. Studies should therefore include multiple sampling points, and at times of infection/immunisation when the B-cell phenotypes of interest are likely to be found in peripheral blood. date: 2010-11-23 official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0015007 oa_status: green language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_source: crossref elements_id: 874624 doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015007 language_elements: aa lyricists_name: Gardner, Peter lyricists_id: PJGAR65 full_text_status: public publication: PLoS ONE volume: 5 number: 11 article_number: e15007 issn: 1932-6203 editors_name: Snounou, G citation: Nduati, EW; Ng, DHL; Ndungu, FM; Gardner, P; Urban, BC; Langhorne, J; (2010) Distinct Kinetics of Memory B-Cell and Plasma-Cell Responses in Peripheral Blood Following a Blood-Stage Plasmodium chabaudi Infection in Mice. PLoS ONE , 5 (11) , Article e15007. 10.1371/journal.pone.0015007 <https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0015007>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1394756/2/journal.pone.0015007.pdf