Adaptive immune receptor repertoire analysis

V Mhanna, H Bashour, K Lê Quý, P Barennes… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
B cell and T cell receptor repertoires compose the adaptive immune receptor repertoire
(AIRR) of an individual. The AIRR is a unique collection of antigen-specific receptors that …

The analysis of clonal expansions in normal and autoimmune B cell repertoires

U Hershberg, ET Luning Prak - … Transactions of the …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Clones are the fundamental building blocks of immune repertoires. The number of different
clones relates to the diversity of the repertoire, whereas their size and sequence diversity …

Observed antibody space: a resource for data mining next-generation sequencing of antibody repertoires

A Kovaltsuk, J Leem, S Kelm, J Snowden… - The Journal of …, 2018 - journals.aai.org
Abs are immune system proteins that recognize noxious molecules for elimination. Their
sequence diversity and binding versatility have made Abs the primary class of …

Overexpression of T-bet in HIV infection is associated with accumulation of B cells outside germinal centers and poor affinity maturation

JW Austin, CM Buckner, L Kardava, W Wang… - Science translational …, 2019 - science.org
Nearly all chronic human infections are associated with alterations in the memory B cell
(MBC) compartment, including a large expansion of CD19hiT-bethi MBC in the peripheral …

Human B cell lineages associated with germinal centers following influenza vaccination are measurably evolving

KB Hoehn, JS Turner, FI Miller, R Jiang, OG Pybus… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
The poor efficacy of seasonal influenza virus vaccines is often attributed to pre-existing
immunity interfering with the persistence and maturation of vaccine-induced B cell …

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
The naïve antibody/B-cell receptor (BCR) repertoires of different individuals ought to exhibit
significant functional commonality, given that most pathogens trigger an effective antibody …

A simplified workflow for monoclonal antibody sequencing

L Meyer, T López, R Espinosa, CF Arias, C Vollmers… - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
The diversity of antibody variable regions makes cDNA sequencing challenging, and
conventional monoclonal antibody cDNA amplification requires the use of degenerate …

[HTML][HTML] Characterization of pathogenic monoclonal autoantibodies derived from muscle-specific kinase myasthenia gravis patients

K Takata, P Stathopoulos, M Cao, M Mané-Damas… - JCI insight, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Myasthenia gravis (MG) is a chronic autoimmune disorder characterized by muscle
weakness and caused by pathogenic autoantibodies that bind to membrane proteins at the …

Quantitative evaluation of protective antibody response induced by hepatitis E vaccine in humans

GP Wen, L He, ZM Tang, SL Wang, X Zhang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Efficacy evaluation through human trials is crucial for advancing a vaccine candidate to
clinics. Next-generation sequencing (NGS) can be used to quantify B cell repertoire …

Immunoglobulin gene analysis as a tool for investigating human immune responses

D Dunn‐Walters, C Townsend, E Sinclair… - Immunological …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The human immunoglobulin repertoire is a hugely diverse set of sequences that are formed
by processes of gene rearrangement, heavy and light chain gene assortment, class …