mRNA vaccines induce durable immune memory to SARS-CoV-2 and variants of concern

RR Goel, MM Painter, SA Apostolidis, D Mathew… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) mRNA
vaccines are highly effective at preventing infection and especially severe disease …

Tissue adaptation and clonal segregation of human memory T cells in barrier sites

MML Poon, DP Caron, Z Wang, SB Wells, D Chen… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
T lymphocytes migrate to barrier sites after exposure to pathogens, providing localized
immunity and long-term protection. Here, we obtained blood and tissues from human organ …

Next-generation sequencing of antibody display repertoires

R Rouet, KJL Jackson, DB Langley… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
In vitro selection technology has transformed the development of therapeutic monoclonal
antibodies. Using methods such as phage, ribosome, and yeast display, high affinity binders …

Induction of bronchus-associated lymphoid tissue is an early life adaptation for promoting human B cell immunity

R Matsumoto, J Gray, K Rybkina, H Oppenheimer… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Infants and young children are more susceptible to common respiratory pathogens than
adults but can fare better against novel pathogens like severe acute respiratory syndrome …

CAR T-cell therapy is effective for CD19-dim B-lymphoblastic leukemia but is impacted by prior blinatumomab therapy

V Pillai, K Muralidharan, W Meng, A Bagashev… - Blood …, 2019 - ashpublications.org
Tisagenlecleucel, a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell product targeting CD19 is
approved for relapsed/refractory B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL). However, the …

The pipeline repertoire for Ig-Seq analysis

L López-Santibáñez-Jácome… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
With the advent of high-throughput sequencing of immunoglobulin genes (Ig-Seq), the
understanding of antibody repertoires and their dynamics among individuals and …

An atlas of B-cell clonal distribution in the human body

W Meng, B Zhang, GW Schwartz, AM Rosenfeld… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
B-cell responses result in clonal expansion, and can occur in a variety of tissues. To define
how B-cell clones are distributed in the body, we sequenced 933,427 B-cell clonal lineages …

Maintenance of the human memory T cell repertoire by subset and tissue site

M Miron, W Meng, AM Rosenfeld, S Dvorkin… - Genome medicine, 2021 - Springer
Background Immune-mediated protection is mediated by T cells expressing pathogen-
specific T cell antigen receptors (TCR) that are maintained at diverse sites of infection as …

PIRD: pan immune repertoire database

W Zhang, L Wang, K Liu, X Wei, K Yang, W Du… - …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Motivation T and B cell receptors (TCRs and BCRs) play a pivotal role in the adaptive
immune system by recognizing an enormous variety of external and internal antigens …

Heterogeneity of human anti-viral immunity shaped by virus, tissue, age, and sex

MML Poon, E Byington, W Meng, M Kubota… - Cell reports, 2021 - cell.com
The persistence of anti-viral immunity is essential for protection and exhibits profound
heterogeneity across individuals. Here, we elucidate the factors that shape maintenance …