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High frequency of shared clonotypes in human B cell receptor repertoires

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  • Cinque Soto

    (Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    Vanderbilt University Medical Center)

  • Robin G. Bombardi

    (Vanderbilt University Medical Center)

  • Andre Branchizio

    (Vanderbilt University Medical Center)

  • Nurgun Kose

    (Vanderbilt University Medical Center)

  • Pranathi Matta

    (Vanderbilt University Medical Center)

  • Alexander M. Sevy

    (Vanderbilt University)

  • Robert S. Sinkovits

    (University of California, San Diego)

  • Pavlo Gilchuk

    (Vanderbilt University Medical Center)

  • Jessica A. Finn

    (Vanderbilt University)

  • James E. Crowe

    (Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    Vanderbilt University Medical Center)

Abstract

The human genome contains approximately 20 thousand protein-coding genes1, but the size of the collection of antigen receptors of the adaptive immune system that is generated by the recombination of gene segments with non-templated junctional additions (on B cells) is unknown—although it is certainly orders of magnitude larger. It has not been established whether individuals possess unique (or private) repertoires or substantial components of shared (or public) repertoires. Here we sequence recombined and expressed B cell receptor genes in several individuals to determine the size of their B cell receptor repertoires, and the extent to which these are shared between individuals. Our experiments revealed that the circulating repertoire of each individual contained between 9 and 17 million B cell clonotypes. The three individuals that we studied shared many clonotypes, including between 1 and 6% of B cell heavy-chain clonotypes shared between two subjects (0.3% of clonotypes shared by all three) and 20 to 34% of λ or κ light chains shared between two subjects (16 or 22% of λ or κ light chains, respectively, were shared by all three). Some of the B cell clonotypes had thousands of clones, or somatic variants, within the clonotype lineage. Although some of these shared lineages might be driven by exposure to common antigens, previous exposure to foreign antigens was not the only force that shaped the shared repertoires, as we also identified shared clonotypes in umbilical cord blood samples and all adult repertoires. The unexpectedly high prevalence of shared clonotypes in B cell repertoires, and identification of the sequences of these shared clonotypes, should enable better understanding of the role of B cell immune repertoires in health and disease.

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  • Cinque Soto & Robin G. Bombardi & Andre Branchizio & Nurgun Kose & Pranathi Matta & Alexander M. Sevy & Robert S. Sinkovits & Pavlo Gilchuk & Jessica A. Finn & James E. Crowe, 2019. "High frequency of shared clonotypes in human B cell receptor repertoires," Nature, Nature, vol. 566(7744), pages 398-402, February.
  • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:566:y:2019:i:7744:d:10.1038_s41586-019-0934-8
    DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-0934-8
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    1. Aleksandr Kovaltsuk & Matthew I J Raybould & Wing Ki Wong & Claire Marks & Sebastian Kelm & James Snowden & Johannes Trück & Charlotte M Deane, 2020. "Structural diversity of B-cell receptor repertoires along the B-cell differentiation axis in humans and mice," PLOS Computational Biology, Public Library of Science, vol. 16(2), pages 1-20, February.
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