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Visualizing Antibody Affinity Maturation in Germinal Centers #MMPMID26912368
Tas JM; Mesin L; Pasqual G; Targ S; Jacobsen JT; Mano YM; Chen CS; Weill JC; Reynaud CA; Browne EP; Meyer-Hermann M; Victora GD
Science 2016[Mar]; 351 (6277): 1048-54 PMID26912368show ga
Antibodies somatically mutate to attain high affinity in germinal centers (GCs). There, competition between B cell clones and among somatic mutants of each clone drives an increase in average affinity across the population. The extent to which higher-affinity cells eliminating competitors restricts clonal diversity is unknown. By combining multiphoton microscopy and sequencing, we show that tens to hundreds of distinct B cell clones seed each GC, and that GCs lose clonal diversity at widely disparate rates. Furthermore, efficient affinity maturation can occur in the absence of homogenizing selection, ensuring that many clones can mature in parallel within the same GC. Our findings have implications for development of vaccines in which antibodies with non-immunodominant specificities must be elicited, as is the case for HIV-1 and influenza.