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Development of diverse anti-nuclear Abs (ANAs) is a hallmark of lupus, which may arise, in part, due to impaired apoptotic cell clearance. In this work, we demonstrate that spontaneous germinal centers (GCs) in lupus-prone mice contain significantly elevated levels of unengulfed apoptotic cells, which are otherwise swiftly engulfed by tingible body macrophages. We indicate that osteopontin (OPN) secreted by CD153+ senescence-associated T cells, which selectively accumulate in the GCs of lupus-prone mice, interferes with phagocytosis of apoptotic cells specifically captured via MFG-E8. OPN induced diffuse and prolonged Rac1 activation in phagocytes via integrin \u03b1v\u03b23 and inhibited the dissolution of phagocytic actin cup, causing defective apoptotic cell engulfment. In wild-type B6 mice, administration of TLR7 ligand also caused spontaneous GC reactions with increasing unengulfed apoptotic cells and ANA production, whereas B6 mice deficient for Spp1 encoding OPN showed less apoptotic cells and developed significantly reduced ANAs in response to TLR7 ligand. Our results suggest that OPN secreted by follicular CD153+ senescence-associated T cells in GCs promotes a continuous supply of intracellular autoantigens via apoptotic cells, thus playing a key role in the progression of the autoreactive GC reaction and leading to pathogenic autoantibody production in lupus-prone mice.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.4049\/jimmunol.1600987","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2016,8,18]],"date-time":"2016-08-18T02:44:41Z","timestamp":1471488281000},"page":"2177-2186","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":35,"title":["Osteopontin in Spontaneous Germinal Centers Inhibits Apoptotic Cell Engulfment and Promotes Anti-Nuclear Antibody Production in Lupus-Prone Mice"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"197","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3886-3066","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Keiko","family":"Sakamoto","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Immunology and Cell Biology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University , Kyoto 606-8501,","place":["Japan"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yuji","family":"Fukushima","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Center for Innovation in Immunoregulative Technology and Therapeutics, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University , Kyoto 606-8501,","place":["Japan"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Koyu","family":"Ito","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Center for Innovation in Immunoregulative Technology and Therapeutics, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University , Kyoto 606-8501,","place":["Japan"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Michiyuki","family":"Matsuda","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pathology and Biology of Diseases, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University , Kyoto 606-8501,","place":["Japan"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Shigekazu","family":"Nagata","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biochemistry and Immunology, Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka University , Osaka 565-0871,","place":["Japan"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Nagahiro","family":"Minato","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Immunology and Cell Biology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University , Kyoto 606-8501,","place":["Japan"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6160-2510","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Masakazu","family":"Hattori","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Center for Innovation in Immunoregulative Technology and Therapeutics, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University , Kyoto 606-8501,","place":["Japan"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2016,9,15]]},"reference":[{"key":"2025030617483779600_r1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"619","DOI":"10.1016\/j.cell.2010.02.014","article-title":"Autoimmunity and the clearance of dead cells","volume":"140","author":"Nagata","year":"2010","journal-title":"Cell"},{"key":"2025030617483779600_r2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"3","DOI":"10.1038\/ng0598-3","article-title":"The lupus paradox","volume":"19","author":"Carroll","year":"1998","journal-title":"Nat. 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