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Chinese Journal of Cellular and Molecular Immunology ; (12): 663-670, 2023.
Article in Chinese | WPRIM | ID: wpr-981914

ABSTRACT

B cell receptor (BCR) is a key molecule involved in B cell specific recognition and the binding of antigens to produce adaptive humoral immune response. Gene rearrangement and high frequency mutation during B cell differentiation are the main mechanisms of BCR diversification. The enormous diversity and unique molecular structure of BCR determine the diversity and specificity of antigen recognition, shaping complex B cell repertoire with extensive collections of antigen specificities. Therefore, BCR antigen-specific information is vital to understanding the adaptive immune characteristics of different diseases. Our ability to connect BCR repertoire and antigen specificity has been enhanced with the development of B cell related research technologies, such as single cell sorting techniques, high-throughput sequencing (HTS), linking B cell receptor to antigen specificity through sequencing (LIBRA-seq). It could help researchers to better understand humoral immune responses, identify disease pathogenesis, monitor disease progression, design vaccines, and develop therapeutic antibodies and drugs. We summarizes recent studies on antigen-specific BCR of infections, vaccinations, autoimmune diseases and cancer. By analyzing autoantibody sequences of SLE as a case, the identification of autoantigens has become potentially possible due to this characterization.


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Receptors, Antigen, B-Cell/metabolism , B-Lymphocytes/metabolism , Lymphocyte Activation , High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing/methods
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In. Palomo González, Iván; Ferreira Vigoroux, Arturo; Sepúlveda Carvajal, Cecilia; Rosemblatt Silber, Mario; Vergara Castillo, Ulises. Fundamentos de inmunología. Talca, Universidad de Talca, 1998. p.115-51, ilus.
Monography in Spanish | LILACS | ID: lil-284804

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Las inmunoglobulinas o anticuerpos son glicoproteínas que se encuentran en la superficie de los linfocitos B y son secretadas por las células plasmáticas, linfocitos B terminalmente diferenciados, en respuesta a un antígeno y, como tal, representan la inmunidad humoral de los vertebrados. Existen 5 formas o isotipos principales: IgG, IgM, IgA, IgD e IgE. Las Igs presentan una estructura básica que posee dos cadenas pesadas (H) idénticas y dos cadenas livianas (L) idénticas, unidas entre sí por puentes disulfuro e interacciones no covalentes. Ambos tipos de cadenas presentan un patrón estructural que consiste de segmentos o dominios de 110 aminoácidos. El análisis de su secuencia de aminoácidos revela la existencia de un dominio variable (V) hacia el extremo aminoterminal y varios dominios constantes (C) hacia el extremo carboxilo terminal. Las cadenas pesadas también poseen un dominio variable (VL) y uno constante (CL). Las cadenas pesadas también poseen un dominio variable (VH) pero tienen 3 ó 4 dominios constantes (CH). Los dominios variables de mabas cadenas contienen zonas de alta variabilidad no contiguas en la secuencia de aminoácidos, son las denominadas regiones hipervariables o CRD (determinantes de complementariedad) y son las principales responsables de la diversidad de los anticuerpos...


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Humans , B-Lymphocytes , Antibody Formation/immunology , Immunoglobulins/immunology , Antibody Diversity/genetics , Antibody Formation/immunology , Genes, Immunoglobulin , Immunoglobulins/biosynthesis , Immunoglobulins/classification , Receptors, Antigen, B-Cell/metabolism , Transcription, Genetic
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