Antibody Repertoires in Humanized NOD-scid-IL2Rγnull Mice and Human B Cells Reveals Human-Like Diversification and Tolerance Checkpoints in the Mouse

dc.creatorIppolito, Gregory C.en
dc.creatorHoi, Kam Honen
dc.creatorReddy, Sai T.en
dc.creatorCarroll, Sean M.en
dc.creatorGe, Xinen
dc.creatorRogosch, Tobiasen
dc.creatorZemlin, Michaelen
dc.creatorShultz, Leonard D.en
dc.creatorEllington, Andrew D.en
dc.creatorVanDenBerg, Carla L.en
dc.creatorGeorgiou, Georgeen
dc.date.accessioned2013-05-23T16:02:20Zen
dc.date.available2013-05-23T16:02:20Zen
dc.date.issued2012-04-27en
dc.descriptionGregory C. Ippolito is with UT Austin; George Georgiou is with UT Austin; Kam Hon Hoi is with UT Austin; Sai T. Reddy is with Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich; Sean M. Carroll is with UT Austin; Xin Ge is with University of California, Riverside; Tobias Rogosch is with Philips-University; Michael Zemlin is with Philips-University; Leonard D. Shultz is with the Jackson Laboratory; Andrew D. Ellington is with UT Austin; Carla L. VanDenBerg is with UT Austin.en
dc.description.abstractImmunodeficient mice reconstituted with human hematopoietic stem cells enable the in vivo study of human hematopoiesis. In particular, NOD-scid-IL2Rγnull engrafted mice have been shown to have reasonable levels of T and B cell repopulation and can mount T-cell dependent responses; however, antigen-specific B-cell responses in this model are generally poor. We explored whether developmental defects in the immunoglobulin gene repertoire might be partly responsible for the low level of antibody responses in this model. Roche 454 sequencing was used to obtain over 685,000 reads from cDNA encoding immunoglobulin heavy (IGH) and light (IGK and IGL) genes isolated from immature, naïve, or total splenic B cells in engrafted NOD-scid-IL2Rγnull mice, and compared with over 940,000 reads from peripheral B cells of two healthy volunteers. We find that while naïve B-cell repertoires in humanized mice are chiefly indistinguishable from those in human blood B cells, and display highly correlated patterns of immunoglobulin gene segment use, the complementarity-determining region H3 (CDR-H3) repertoires are nevertheless extremely diverse and are specific for each individual. Despite this diversity, preferential DH-JH pairings repeatedly occur within the CDR-H3 interval that are strikingly similar across all repertoires examined, implying a genetic constraint imposed on repertoire generation. Moreover, CDR-H3 length, charged amino-acid content, and hydropathy are indistinguishable between humans and humanized mice, with no evidence of global autoimmune signatures. Importantly, however, a statistically greater usage of the inherently autoreactive IGHV4-34 and IGKV4-1 genes was observed in the newly formed immature B cells relative to naïve B or total splenic B cells in the humanized mice, a finding consistent with the deletion of autoreactive B cells in humans. Overall, our results provide evidence that key features of the primary repertoire are shaped by genetic factors intrinsic to human B cells and are principally unaltered by differences between mouse and human stromal microenvironments.en
dc.description.departmentMicrobiologyen
dc.description.sponsorshipFunding was provided by the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas; the Clayton Foundation; the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft; and the National Institutes of Health. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.en
dc.identifier.citationIppolito GC, Hoi KH, Reddy ST, Carroll SM, Ge X, et al. (2012) Antibody Repertoires in Humanized NOD-scid-IL2Rγnull Mice and Human B Cells Reveals Human-Like Diversification and Tolerance Checkpoints in the Mouse. PLoS ONE 7(4): e35497. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0035497en
dc.identifier.doi10.1371/journal.pone.0035497en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2152/20151en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisherPublic Library of Scienceen
dc.rightsAttribution 3.0 United Statesen
dc.rightsCC-BYen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/en
dc.subjectAntibodiesen
dc.subjectAntigensen
dc.subjectB cellsen
dc.subjectBlooden
dc.subjectComplementary DNAen
dc.subjectSequence analysisen
dc.subjectSequence motif analysisen
dc.subjectSpleenen
dc.titleAntibody Repertoires in Humanized NOD-scid-IL2Rγnull Mice and Human B Cells Reveals Human-Like Diversification and Tolerance Checkpoints in the Mouseen
dc.typeArticleen

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