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

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Georgiou, George, Ippolito, Gregory C, Beausang, John, Busse, Christian E, Wardemann, Hedda, Quake, Stephen R·2014·Nature Biotechnology

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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 extremely rapid pace and are transforming our understanding of humoral immune responses. Information gained from high-throughput DNA sequencing of immunoglobulin genes (Ig-seq) can be applied to detect B-cell malignancies with high sensitivity, to discover antibodies specific for antigens of interest, to guide vaccine development and to understand autoimmunity. Rapid progress in the development of experimental protocols and informatics analysis tools is helping to reduce sequencing artifacts, to achieve more precise quantification of clonal diversity and to extract the most pertinent biological information. That said, broader application of Ig-seq, especially in clinical settings, will require the development of a standardized experimental design framework that will enable the sharing and meta-analysis of sequencing data generated by different laboratories.

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Authors
Georgiou, G., Ippolito, G. C., Beausang, J., Busse, C. E., Wardemann, H., & Quake, S. R.
Affiliations
  • The University of Texas at Austin (US)
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute (US)
  • Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology (DE)
Corresponding author
Georgiou, George
Venue
Nature Biotechnology
Published
2014-01-19
Volume
32
Issue
2
Pages
158-168
ISSN
  • 0733-222X (ISSN-L)
  • 1087-0156
  • 1546-1696
OpenAlex
W1993928780
Cited by
652
References
141
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FWCI
12.91
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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  • Nature Biotechnology (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Max Planck Digital Library (submittedVersion)
  • MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute
  • National Institutes of Health
  • National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (U54AI057156)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging › Monoclonal and Polyclonal Antibodies Research
  • Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Immunology › T-cell and B-cell Immunology
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
Keywords
antibody repertoire, B cells, humoral immune response, B-cell malignancies, antibody discovery, vaccine development, autoimmunity, sequencing artifacts
MeSH terms
Animals, Humans, Immunoglobulins, Immunologic Techniques, Models, Immunological, Biomedical Research, Mice, High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing

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