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Signals transduced by precursor-BCRs (pre-BCRs) composed of Ig mu heavy chains (HCs) and the surrogate L chain components lambda5 and VpreB are critical for B cell development. A conserved unique region (UR) of lambda5 was shown to activate pre-BCR complexes in transformed cells and to engage putative ligands, but its contribution to pre-B cell development is not known. It is also not clear why the lambda-like sequences in lambda5 are used to select HCs that will associate mainly with kappa L chains. In this study, we show that, in transformed and primary mouse B cell progenitors, receptors containing full-length HCs and lacking the lambda5UR were expressed at higher surface levels, but exhibited reduced activity compared with normal pre-BCRs in supporting developmental changes that accompany the progenitor to pre-B cell transition in primary cell culture systems and in the bone marrow in vivo. In contrast, deletion of the lambda5UR did not change net signaling output by the Dmu-pre-BCR, a developmentally defective receptor that exhibited impaired activity in the primary cell culture system. Moreover, the lambda-like sequences in lambda5 were more accommodating than kappa in supporting surface expression and signaling by the different HCs. These results show that the lambda5UR is important, although not essential, for surrogate L chain-dependent receptor signaling in primary cells, and furthermore may help allow discrimination of signaling competency between normal and Dmu-pre-BCRs. That the lambda-like portion of lambda5 in the absence of the UR was nondiscriminatory suggests that the lambda5UR focuses pre-BCR-dependent selection on the HC V region.

The Unique Region of Surrogate Light Chain Component λ5 Is a Heavy Chain-Specific Regulator of Precursor B Cell Receptor Signaling