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Engineering Human Donor Derived Germinal Center‐Like Organoids (GCLOs) for Studying Immune Response to Vaccination

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
We bioengineered a new approach methodology of generating Germinal Center Organoids that self‐organize from human blood‐derived immune cells. These immune organoids reproduce key features of humoral immunity, IgG production, and plasmablast emergence.
Bhumi Suthar, Carlos Gomez, Giancarlo Asencio, Suresh Pallikkuth, Ashutosh Agarwal   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Chicken MBD4 Regulates Immunoglobulin Diversification by Somatic Hypermutation

Frontiers in Immunology, 2019
Immunoglobulin (Ig) diversification occurs via somatic hypermutation (SHM) and class switch recombination (CSR), and is initiated by activation-induced deaminase (AID), which converts cytosine to uracil.
Ryan Costello, Jose F. Cantillo, Amy L. Kenter   +2 more
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Sustained Delivery of a Shingles Subunit Vaccine Overcomes Age‐Related Declines in Humoral and Cellular Immunity Relative to Shingrix

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Sustained delivery of a shingles subunit vaccine from an injectable polymer–nanoparticle hydrogel enhanced the potency, durability, and breadth of immune responses in aged mice while minimizing inflammatory cytokine production and reactogenicity. This strategy decouples immunogenicity from reactogenicity and offers a promising approach to improve ...
Ye Eun Song, Jerry Yan, Ben S. Ou, Olivia M. Saouaf, Noah Eckman, E. A. Appel   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Somatic Evolution of a Germline Antibody Expands its Breadth to Neutralize Early SARS‐CoV‐2 Omicron Variants

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Engineering of the 148‐germline (148‐GL) antibody reveals a roadmap for overcoming SARS‐CoV‐2 viral escape. By introducing four specific somatic hypermutations, the resulting 148‐M4 variant restores potent neutralization against Omicron BA.1 and BA.4/5.
Huibin Lv, Ziqi Feng, Qi Wen Teo, Chunke Chen, Akshita B. Gopal, Danbi Choi, Timothy J. C. Tan, Yun Sang Tang, Lewis Siu, Armita Nourmohammad, Roberto Bruzzone, Ian A. Wilson, Meng Yuan, Nicholas C. Wu, Chris K. P. Mok   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Original Antigenic Sin: the Downside of Immunological Memory and Implications for COVID-19

mSphere, 2021
The concept of original antigenic sin (OAS) was put forth many years ago to explain how humoral memory responses generated against one set of antigens can affect the nature of antibody responses elicited to challenge infections or vaccinations containing
Eric L. Brown, Heather T. Essigmann
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Somatic hypermutation and B–cell lymphoma [PDF]

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 2001
During the B–cell response to T–cell–dependent antigens, the B cells undergo a rapid proliferative phase in the germinal centre. This is accompanied by the introduction of mutations into the immunoglobulin (Ig) variable region (V) genes. The B cells are then selected according to the affinity of the encoded immunoglobulin for antigen, resulting in ...
Dunn-Walters, D, Thiede, C, Alpen, B, Spencer, J   +3 more
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SOX5 Orchestrates Malignant Evolution via Promoter‐Centric Chromatin Remodeling in MYC‐Driven B‐Cell Lymphoma

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
In MYC‐enforced B‐cell lymphoma, SOX5 occupies promoter‐proximal regulatory regions and is associated with reduced chromatin accessibility at the PCNP locus. PCNP repression promotes proliferative remodeling by limiting apoptosis and cell‐cycle restraint.
Yiyou Mao, Zhenyuan Jia, Xiao‐Qin Mu, Ruilin Wang, Jianli Ma, Qingyuan Zhang, Yuwei Deng   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cell Cycle Regulates Nuclear Stability of AID and Determines the Cellular Response to AID. [PDF]

PLoS Genetics, 2015
AID (Activation Induced Deaminase) deaminates cytosines in DNA to initiate immunoglobulin gene diversification and to reprogram CpG methylation in early development.
Quy Le, Nancy Maizels
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Canonical Antibodies Adopt Distinct Binding Modes to Recognize Viral Glycan Shields

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Canonical Y‐shaped antibodies recognize viral glycan shields through adaptive Fab assembly states shaped by glycan organization and somatic hypermutation. Structural analyses ofbroadly neutralizing antibodies VRC35 and VRC36 across glycoproteins of HIV‐1, influenza, SARS‐CoV‐2, and Lassa viruses reveal distinct Fab assembly states, spanning monovalent,
Jiaxuan Cheng, Evan M. Cale, Amirabbas Maghsoudi, Matthew S. Sutton, Nancy S. Longo, Rebecca A. Gillespie, Lingshu Wang, Ivan Kosik, Sue Chong, Atsuhiro Yasuhara, Tatsiana Bylund, Arne Schön, Prabhanshu Tripathi, Yaroslav Tsybovsky, Haotian Lei, Nicholas C. Morano, Allison B. Lupatkin, Abraham J. Morton, Zabrina C. Lang, Jordan E. Becker, Isabella R. Frascilla, Myungjin Lee, Ning Li, Cuiping Liu, Ryan S. Roark, Chen‐Hsiang Shen, I‐Ting Teng, David J. Van Wazer, Danyi Wang, Lingyuan Wu, Goran Ahlsen, Mike Castro, Haijuan Du, Michael J. Ernandes, Tiansheng Li, Bob C. Lin, Mark K. Louder, Krisha McKee, Jonah S. Merriam, Sijy O'Dell, Li Ou, Sergei Pletnev, David Prikryl, Qi Qiu, Sarah Rubin, Mallika Sastry, Stephen D. Schmidt, Asif Shajahan, Andrea R. Shiakolas, Sanjay Srivatsan, Baoshan Zhang, Qiong Zhou, Mark Connors, Jason G. Gall, Yicheng Guo, Rick K. Huang, Yaoxing Huang, Richard A. Koup, Q. Paula Lei, John R. Mascola, Reda Rawi, Leonid Serebryannyy, Lawrence Shapiro, Zizhang Sheng, David D. Ho, Patrick C. Wilson, Jonathan W. Yewdell, Theodore C. Pierson, Masaru Kanekiyo, Nicole A. Doria‐Rose, Peter D. Kwong, Tongqing Zhou   +71 more
wiley   +1 more source

High-throughput immune repertoire analysis with IGoR

Nature Communications, 2018
B and T cell receptor diversity can be studied by high-throughput immune receptor sequencing. Here, the authors develop a software tool, IGoR, that calculates the likelihoods of potential V(D)J recombination and somatic hypermutation scenarios from raw ...
Quentin Marcou, Thierry Mora, Aleksandra M. Walczak   +2 more
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