How repertoire data are changing antibody science

C Marks, CM Deane - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2020 - ASBMB
Antibodies are composed of two types of protein chain, known as the heavy and light chains
(Fig. 1). Each of these is encoded by multiple gene segments that are spliced together using …

In-depth determination and analysis of the human paired heavy-and light-chain antibody repertoire

BJ DeKosky, T Kojima, A Rodin, W Charab… - Nature medicine, 2015 - nature.com
… In a separate experiment designed to verify native VH-VL pairing accuracy, we transfected
… True VH-VL pairs cannot be known for an entire human antibody repertoire, but we can …

Understanding the human antibody repertoire

AR Rees - MAbs, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
… have managed to discard the need for a light chain in their repertoire of VHH antibodies. …
can address a particular epitope with the likelihood of forming a viable antibody-antigen pairing

Powered by pairing: the surrogate light chain amplifies immunoglobulin heavy chain signaling and pre-selects the antibody repertoire

C Vettermann, K Herrmann, HM Jäck - Seminars in immunology, 2006 - Elsevier
… SLC-pairing μHCs increases the primary antibody repertoire, … antibody specificity. Since
proliferation of pre-B cells is only accomplished by the presence of a complete pre-BCR, pairing

Isolation of human antibody repertoires with preservation of the natural heavy and light chain pairing

PJ Meijer, PS Andersen, MH Hansen, L Steinaa… - Journal of molecular …, 2006 - Elsevier
… H and V L ) allow isolation of antibodies against virtually any antigen.3, 4… pairing of V H and
V L domains, which excludes information about the cognate pairing of heavy and light chains

Analysis of heavy and light chain pairings indicates that receptor editing shapes the human antibody repertoire

RMT De Wildt, RMA Hoet, WJ van Venrooij… - Journal of molecular …, 1999 - Elsevier
repertoire is dominated by a limited number of pairings of segments and folds. Among these
pairings we identified two identical mutated heavy chains … different mutated light chains (one …

The application of next generation sequencing to the understanding of antibody repertoires

P Mathonet, CG Ullman - Frontiers in immunology, 2013 - frontiersin.org
… their light chain pairing, but NGS could not elucidate the natural heavy and light chain pairings
(… natural functional heavy and light chain pairings, but mismatched pairings led to greater …

Deep sequencing and human antibody repertoire analysis

SD Boyd, JE Crowe Jr - Current opinion in immunology, 2016 - Elsevier
… Heavy chain pairing with diverse light chains is known to be quite promiscuous, based on
extensive data from phage display library experiments. Therefore, it is challenging to select …

Large-scale sequence and structural comparisons of human naive and antigen-experienced antibody repertoires

BJ DeKosky, OI Lungu, D Park… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
antibody repertoire is fundamental to our understanding of B-cell immunity. We sequenced
the paired heavy- and light-chain … Convergence in light-chain gene pairing was markedly …

Public Baseline and shared response structures support the theory of antibody repertoire functional commonality

MIJ Raybould, C Marks, A Kovaltsuk… - PLoS computational …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
pairing algorithm only predicts modellable Fv pairings based on PDB structures, we compared
our IGHV/IG[K/L]V pairing … is limited to the antibody chains that are currently predicted to …