Majority of human circulating plasmablasts stop blasting: A probable misnomer
Nguyen, D. C.; Saney, C.; Hentenaar, I. T.; Cabrera-Mora, M.; Woodruff, M. C.; Andrews, J.; Lonial, S.; Sanz, I.; Lee, F. E.-H.
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Following infection or vaccination, early-minted antibody secreting cells (ASC) or plasmablasts appear in circulation transiently, and a small fraction migrates to the spleen or bone marrow (BM) to mature into long-lived plasma cells (LLPC). While LLPC, by definition, are quiescent or non-dividing, the majority of blood ASC are thought to be "blasting" or proliferative. In this study, we find >95% nascent blood ASC in culture express Ki-67 but only 6-12% incorporate BrdU after 4h or 24h labeling. In contrast, <5% BM LLPC in culture are Ki-67+ with no BrdU uptake. Due to limitations of traditional flow cytometry, we utilized a novel optofluidic technology to evaluate cell division with simultaneous functional Ig secretion. We find 11% early-minted blood ASC undergo division, and none of the terminally differentiated BM LLPC (CD19-CD38hiCD138+) divide during the 7-21 days in culture. While BM LLPC undergo complete cell cycle arrest, the process of differentiation into an ASC of plasmablasts discourages entry into S phase. Since the majority of Ki-67+ nascent blood ASC have exited cell cycle and are no longer actively "blasting", the term "plasmablast", which traditionally refers to an ASC that still has the capacity to divide, may probably be a misnomer.
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