Abstract
Germinal centers (GCs), which are the site of antibody diversification and affinity maturation, are vitally important for humoral immunity. GC B cell proliferation is essentially for these processes by providing enough templates for somatic hypermutation (SHM) and serving as a critical mechanism of positive selection. In the current study, we found a significant reduction of GC response in the spleens of GC B cell specific PHF14 knockout (PHF14GCB KO) mice compared with the wild-type control (PHF14GCB WT) when the mice were challenged with SRBCs or lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus. We also demonstrated that PHF14 did not affect the cell survival of GC B cells, but regulated the proliferation of GC B cells. In addition, PHF14 suppressed the expression of Cdkn1a (p21) though regulating the level of H3K4me3 to control the proliferation of GC B cells. Collectively, our data suggest that PHF14 plays an important role in the process of germinal center formation by regulating GC B cell proliferation in spleen.
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