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 …

New concepts in the generation and functions of IgA

O Pabst - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2012 - nature.com
The intestinal mucosa contains the largest population of antibody-secreting plasma cells in
the body, and in humans several grams of secretory immunoglobulin A (SIgA) are released …

Single-cell barcoding and sequencing using droplet microfluidics

R Zilionis, J Nainys, A Veres, V Savova, D Zemmour… - Nature protocols, 2017 - nature.com
Single-cell RNA sequencing has recently emerged as a powerful tool for map** cellular
heterogeneity in diseased and healthy tissues, yet high-throughput methods are needed for …

Single-cell analysis and sorting using droplet-based microfluidics

L Mazutis, J Gilbert, WL Ung, DA Weitz, AD Griffiths… - Nature protocols, 2013 - nature.com
We present a droplet-based microfluidics protocol for high-throughput analysis and sorting
of single cells. Compartmentalization of single cells in droplets enables the analysis of …

Microfluidic lab-on-a-chip platforms: requirements, characteristics and applications

D Mark, S Haeberle, G Roth, F Von Stetten… - Microfluidics based …, 2010 - Springer
This review summarizes recent developments in microfluidic platform approaches. In
contrast to isolated application-specific solutions, a microfluidic platform provides a set of …

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 …

Are biological systems poised at criticality?

T Mora, W Bialek - Journal of Statistical Physics, 2011 - Springer
Many of life's most fascinating phenomena emerge from interactions among many elements—
many amino acids determine the structure of a single protein, many genes determine the …

A compact vocabulary of paratope-epitope interactions enables predictability of antibody-antigen binding

R Akbar, PA Robert, M Pavlović, JR Jeliazkov… - Cell Reports, 2021 - cell.com
Antibody-antigen binding relies on the specific interaction of amino acids at the paratope-
epitope interface. The predictability of antibody-antigen binding is a prerequisite for de novo …

High-throughput sequencing of the paired human immunoglobulin heavy and light chain repertoire

BJ DeKosky, GC Ippolito, RP Deschner… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Each B-cell receptor consists of a pair of heavy and light chains. High-throughput
sequencing can identify large numbers of heavy-and light-chain variable regions (VH and …

OLGA: fast computation of generation probabilities of B-and T-cell receptor amino acid sequences and motifs

Z Sethna, Y Elhanati, CG Callan Jr, AM Walczak… - …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Motivation High-throughput sequencing of large immune repertoires has enabled the
development of methods to predict the probability of generation by V (D) J recombination of …