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Significance Only a fraction of immature B cells enter the mature B-cell pool to produce antibodies. Autoreactive immature B cells expressing antibodies to self remain in the bone marrow to continue immunoglobulin gene rearrangements and are selected into the periphery only if they eliminate their autoreactive specificity. We show that the rat sarcoma (Ras)-Erk pathway, which leads to the generation of mature B cells, is not constitutively activated in autoreactive immature B cells. Furthermore, activation of Ras can alter the selection pattern of autoreactive cells, inhibiting immunoglobulin gene recombination via PI3K, promoting cell differentiation via Erk, and resulting in secretion of autoantibodies. This suggests that changes in the activation of the Ras–Erk/PI3K pathway have the potential to lead to autoimmune manifestations.

Activation of Ras overcomes B-cell tolerance to promote differentiation of autoreactive B cells and production of autoantibodies