
Abstract Coordination of V rearrangements between loci on homologous chromosomes is critical for Ig and TCR allelic exclusion. The Ataxia Telangietasia mutated (ATM) protein kinase promotes DNA repair and activates checkpoints to suppress aberrant Ig and TCR rearrangements. In response to RAG cleavage of Igκ loci, ATM inhibits RAG expression and suppresses further Vκ-to-Jκ rearrangements to enforce Igκ allelic exclusion. Because V recombination between alleles is more strictly regulated for TCRβ and IgH loci, we evaluated the ability of ATM to restrict biallelic expression and V-to-DJ recombination of TCRβ and IgH genes. We detected greater frequencies of lymphocytes with biallelic expression or aberrant V-to-DJ rearrangement of TCRβ or IgH loci in mice lacking ATM. A preassembled DJβ complex that decreases the number of TCRβ rearrangements needed for a productive TCRβ gene further increased frequencies of ATM-deficient cells with biallelic TCRβ expression. IgH and TCRβ proteins drive proliferation of prolymphocytes through cyclin D3 (Ccnd3), which also inhibits VH transcription. We show that inactivation of Ccnd3 leads to increased frequencies of lymphocytes with biallelic expression of IgH or TCRβ genes. We also show that Ccnd3 inactivation cooperates with ATM deficiency to increase the frequencies of cells with biallelic TCRβ or IgH expression while decreasing the frequency of ATM-deficient lymphocytes with aberrant V-to-DJ recombination. Our data demonstrate that core components of the DNA damage response and cell cycle machinery cooperate to help enforce IgH and TCRβ allelic exclusion and indicate that control of V-to-DJ rearrangements between alleles is important to maintain genomic stability.
Homeodomain Proteins, Mice, Knockout, Immunoglobulin delta-Chains, DNA Repair, Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta, Immunoglobulin Variable Region, Ataxia Telangiectasia Mutated Proteins, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Immunoglobulin kappa-Chains, Mice, Immunoglobulin J-Chains, Animals, VDJ Exons, Cyclin D3, Immunoglobulin Heavy Chains, Cell Proliferation, DNA Damage
Homeodomain Proteins, Mice, Knockout, Immunoglobulin delta-Chains, DNA Repair, Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta, Immunoglobulin Variable Region, Ataxia Telangiectasia Mutated Proteins, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Immunoglobulin kappa-Chains, Mice, Immunoglobulin J-Chains, Animals, VDJ Exons, Cyclin D3, Immunoglobulin Heavy Chains, Cell Proliferation, DNA Damage
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