The expressed heavy chain V gene repertoire of circulating B cells in normal adults.
The expressed heavy chain V gene repertoire of circulating B cells in normal adults.
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正常成人循环 B 细胞表达的重链 V 基因库。
DOI:
10.1111/j.1749-6632.1995.tb55836.x
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发表时间:
1995
影响因子:
5.2
通讯作者:
Stollar,BD
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Stollar,BD
Analyses of the expressed human Ig repertoire are undertaken for several purposes. Comparisons of fetal, neonatal, and adult repertoires explore the developmental program of the immune system, asking how the capacity for diverse immune responses develops in an individual and how it varies among different persons. How are choices made among the vast numbers of potential combinations of gene segments with or without mutations? How do particular antibody responses to viral or bacterial antigens arise from a primary repertoire formed before exposure to such environmental antigens? How does one evaluate restricted patterns of V gene segment usage seen in malignancy and autoimmunity? What is the relationship between disease-associated and natural autoantibodies that appear in a primary repertoire? Early information reflecting repertoire expression was present in primary structure data for myeloma proteins.'Subsequently, there has been an accumulation of sequence data for rearranged genomic DNA, and even more for Ig cDNA from human hybridomas, EBV-transformed B cells, and leukemic B cell^.^-^ Many hybridomas and virus-transformed B cells were chosen for study mainly because their products were of interest-either autoantibodies or antibodies to bacterial or viral antigens. In addition, cDNAs from fetal and neonatal B cells were analyzed in studies of repertoire deve I~ pment.~-~ Limited numbers of individual hybridomas and EBV-transformed cells can be analyzed. For examination of larger numbers of cells, in situ hybridization with specific probes1-12 and PCRE, 13-'5 have been applied to both fetal and adult B-cell populations and to both H and L chains. Simultaneous advances in defining the genomic content of V region segments16-2'have been of paramount importance for interpretation of sequence data obtained at the levels of rearranged DNA, mRNA, and protein.