作者: Kelly A. Pike , Ehtesham Baig , Michael J. H. Ratcliffe
DOI: 10.1111/J.0105-2896.2004.0111.X
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摘要: The bursa of Fabricius has evolved in birds as a gut-associated site B-cell lymphopoiesis that is segregated from the development other hematopoietic lineages. Despite differences developmental progression chicken compared to murine lymphopoiesis, cell-surface immunoglobulin (sIg) expression been conserved an essential checkpoint development. precursors express sIg complex includes evolutionarily Igalpha/beta heterodimer colonize lymphoid follicles bursa, whereas fail due non-productive V(D)J recombination are eliminated. Productive retroviral gene transfer allowed us introduce chimeric receptor constructs into developing vivo. Chimeric proteins comprising extracellular and transmembrane regions CD8alpha fused cytoplasmic domain Igalpha efficiently supported lacked endogenous expression. By contrast, equivalent containing Igbeta actively inhibited Consequently, domains play functionally distinct roles