Successful and maladaptive T cell aging

JJ Goronzy, CM Weyand - Immunity, 2017 - cell.com
Throughout life, the T cell system adapts to shifting resources and demands, resulting in a
fundamentally restructured immune system in older individuals. Here we review the cellular …

Steering and controlling evolution—from bioengineering to fighting pathogens

M Lässig, V Mustonen, A Nourmohammad - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Control interventions steer the evolution of molecules, viruses, microorganisms or other cells
towards a desired outcome. Applications range from engineering biomolecules and …

Single-cell RNA sequencing coupled to TCR profiling of large granular lymphocyte leukemia T cells

S Gao, Z Wu, B Arnold, C Diamond, S Batchu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
T-cell large granular lymphocyte leukemia (T-LGLL) is a lymphoproliferative disease and
bone marrow failure syndrome which responds to immunosuppressive therapies. We show …

Early activation of inflammatory pathways in UBA1-mutated hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells in VEXAS

Z Wu, S Gao, Q Gao, BA Patel, EM Groarke, X Feng… - Cell Reports …, 2023 - cell.com
Summary VEXAS (vacuoles, E1 enzyme, X-linked, autoinflammatory, somatic) syndrome is a
pleiotropic, severe autoinflammatory disease caused by somatic mutations in the ubiquitin …

The naive T-cell receptor repertoire has an extremely broad distribution of clone sizes

PC de Greef, T Oakes, B Gerritsen, M Ismail… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
The clone size distribution of the human naive T-cell receptor (TCR) repertoire is an
important determinant of adaptive immunity. We estimated the abundance of TCR …

Quantitative characterization of the T cell receptor repertoire of naïve and memory subsets using an integrated experimental and computational pipeline which is …

T Oakes, JM Heather, K Best, R Byng-Maddick… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
The T cell receptor (TCR) repertoire can provide a personalized biomarker for infectious and
non-infectious diseases. We describe a protocol for amplifying, sequencing, and analyzing …

Zipf's law arises naturally when there are underlying, unobserved variables

L Aitchison, N Corradi, PE Latham - PLoS computational biology, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Zipf's law, which states that the probability of an observation is inversely proportional to its
rank, has been observed in many domains. While there are models that explain Zipf's law in …

How many different clonotypes do immune repertoires contain?

T Mora, AM Walczak - Current Opinion in Systems Biology, 2019 - Elsevier
Immune repertoires rely on diversity of T-cell receptors and immunoglobulins to protect us
against foreign threats. The ability to recognize a wide variety of pathogens is linked to the …

Organs on chip approach: a tool to evaluate cancer-immune cells interactions

E Biselli, E Agliari, A Barra, FR Bertani, A Gerardino… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
In this paper we discuss the applicability of numerical descriptors and statistical physics
concepts to characterize complex biological systems observed at microscopic level through …

[HTML][HTML] Quantitative immunology for physicists

G Altan-Bonnet, T Mora, AM Walczak - Physics Reports, 2020 - Elsevier
The adaptive immune system is a dynamical, self-organized multiscale system that protects
vertebrates from both pathogens and internal irregularities, such as tumors. For these …