The promise and challenge of high-throughput sequencing of the antibody repertoire

G Georgiou, GC Ippolito, J Beausang, CE Busse… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Efforts to determine the antibody repertoire encoded by B cells in the blood or lymphoid
organs using high-throughput DNA sequencing technologies have been advancing at an …

Development of broadly neutralizing antibodies in HIV-1 infected elite neutralizers

E Landais, PL Moore - Retrovirology, 2018 - Springer
Broadly neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs), able to prevent viral entry by diverse global
viruses, are a major focus of HIV vaccine design, with data from animal studies confirming …

Tailored immunogens direct affinity maturation toward HIV neutralizing antibodies

B Briney, D Sok, JG Jardine, DW Kulp, P Skog, S Menis… - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
Induction of broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) is a primary goal of HIV vaccine
development. VRC01-class bnAbs are important vaccine leads because their precursor B …

The effects of somatic hypermutation on neutralization and binding in the PGT121 family of broadly neutralizing HIV antibodies

D Sok, U Laserson, J Laserson, Y Liu… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Broadly neutralizing HIV antibodies (bnAbs) are typically highly somatically mutated, raising
doubts as to whether they can be elicited by vaccination. We used 454 sequencing and …

Immunosequencing: applications of immune repertoire deep sequencing

H Robins - Current opinion in immunology, 2013 - Elsevier
Highlights•New technology to profile the adaptive immune system with high-throughput
sequencing of adaptive immune receptors.•Ability to follow the dynamics of an adaptive …

Analyzing immunoglobulin repertoires

N Chaudhary, DR Wesemann - Frontiers in immunology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Somatic assembly of T cell receptor and B cell receptor (BCR) genes produces a vast
diversity of lymphocyte antigen recognition capacity. The advent of efficient high-throughput …

Sequence-intrinsic mechanisms that target AID mutational outcomes on antibody genes

LS Yeap, JK Hwang, Z Du, RM Meyers, FL Meng… - Cell, 2015 - cell.com
In activated B lymphocytes, AID initiates antibody variable (V) exon somatic hypermutation
(SHM) for affinity maturation in germinal centers (GCs) and IgH switch (S) region DNA …

Immunoglobulin gene insertions and deletions in the affinity maturation of HIV-1 broadly reactive neutralizing antibodies

TB Kepler, HX Liao, SM Alam, R Bhaskarabhatla… - Cell host & …, 2014 - cell.com
Induction of HIV-1 broad neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) is a goal of HIV-1 vaccine
development but has remained challenging partially due to unusual traits of bnAbs …

Related mechanisms of antibody somatic hypermutation and class switch recombination

JK Hwang, FW Alt, LS Yeap - Mobile DNA III, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The B cell receptor (BCR) is expressed on the B lymphocyte cell surface where it serves as a
receptor for foreign antigens (1). The BCR is comprised of two immunoglobulin (Ig) heavy …

Insights into the structural basis of antibody affinity maturation from next-generation sequencing

AK Mishra, RA Mariuzza - Frontiers in immunology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Affinity maturation is the process whereby the immune system generates antibodies of
higher affinities during a response to antigen. It is unique in being the only evolutionary …