Authors
Jennifer Gommerman and Olga Rojas
Summary
The largest mucosal surface in the body is in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, a location that is heavily colonized by normally harmless microbes. A key mechanism required for maintaining a homeostatic balance between this microbial burden and the lymphocytes that densely populate the GI tract is the production and trans-epithelial transport of poly-reactive IgA1. Within the mucosal tissues, B cells respond to cytokines, sometimes in the absence of T cell help, undergo class switch recombination (CSR) of their Immunoglobulin (Ig) receptor to IgA, and differentiate to become plasma cells (PC)2. However, IgA-secreting PC likely have additional attributes that are needed for coping with the tremendous bacterial load in the GI tract. Here we describe a detailed method to characterize IgA+B220lowCD11clowiNOS+TNFα+ cells that we named TNFα-iNOS-producing (TiP)-PC in the lamina propria of mice by FACS.Further details
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