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Computational Model Reveals Limited Correlation between Germinal Center B-Cell
Subclone Abundancy and Affinity: Implications for Repertoire Sequencing
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Reshetova P
; van Schaik BD
; Klarenbeek PL
; Doorenspleet ME
; Esveldt RE
; Tak PP
; Guikema JE
; de Vries N
; van Kampen AH
Front Immunol
2017[]; 8
(ä): 221
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Immunoglobulin repertoire sequencing has successfully been applied to identify
expanded antigen-activated B-cell clones that play a role in the pathogenesis of
immune disorders. One challenge is the selection of the Ag-specific B cells from
the measured repertoire for downstream analyses. A general feature of an immune
response is the expansion of specific clones resulting in a set of subclones with
common ancestry varying in abundance and in the number of acquired somatic
mutations. The expanded subclones are expected to have BCR affinities for the Ag
higher than the affinities of the naive B cells in the background population. For
these reasons, several groups successfully proceeded or suggested selecting
highly abundant subclones from the repertoire to obtain the Ag-specific B cells.
Given the nature of affinity maturation one would expect that abundant subclones
are of high affinity but since repertoire sequencing only provides information
about abundancies, this can only be verified with additional experiments, which
are very labor intensive. Moreover, this would also require knowledge of the Ag,
which is often not available for clinical samples. Consequently, in general we do
not know if the selected highly abundant subclone(s) are also the high(est)
affinity subclones. Such knowledge would likely improve the selection of relevant
subclones for further characterization and Ag screening. Therefore, to gain
insight in the relation between subclone abundancy and affinity, we developed a
computational model that simulates affinity maturation in a single GC while
tracking individual subclones in terms of abundancy and affinity. We show that
the model correctly captures the overall GC dynamics, and that the amount of
expansion is qualitatively comparable to expansion observed from B cells isolated
from human lymph nodes. Analysis of the fraction of high- and low-affinity
subclones among the unexpanded and expanded subclones reveals a limited
correlation between abundancy and affinity and shows that the low abundant
subclones are of highest affinity. Thus, our model suggests that selecting highly
abundant subclones from repertoire sequencing experiments would not always lead
to the high(est) affinity B cells. Consequently, additional or alternative
selection approaches need to be applied.