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IMGT/HighV QUEST paradigm for T cell receptor IMGT clonotype diversity and next generation repertoire immunoprofiling

  • Shuo Li
  • , Marie-Paule Lefranc
  • , John J Miles
  • , Eltaf Alamyar
  • , Veronique Giudicelli
  • , Patrice Duroux
  • , John Douglas Freeman
  • , Vincent D A Corbin
  • , Jean-Paul Scheerlinck
  • , Michael A Frohman
  • , Paul Urquhart Cameron
  • , Magdalena Plebanski
  • , Bruce E Loveland
  • , Scott R Burrows
  • , Anthony Troy Papenfuss
  • , Eric J Gowans

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Abstract

T cell repertoire diversity and clonotype follow-up in vaccination, cancer, infectious and immune diseases represent a major challenge owing to the enormous complexity of the data generated. Here we describe a next generation methodology, which combines 5 RACE PCR, 454 sequencing and, for analysis, IMGT, the international ImMunoGeneTics information system (IMGT), IMGT/HighV-QUEST web portal and IMGT-ONTOLOGY concepts. The approach is validated in a human case study of T cell receptor beta (TRB) repertoire, by chronologically tracking the effects of influenza vaccination on conventional and regulatory T cell subpopulations. The IMGT/HighV-QUEST paradigm defines standards for genotype/haplotype analysis and characterization of IMGT clonotypes for clonal diversity and expression and achieves a degree of resolution for next generation sequencing verifiable by the user at the sequence level, while providing a normalized reference immunoprofile for human TRB. ? 2013 Macmillan Publishers Limited.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1 - 13
Number of pages13
JournalNature Communications
Volume4
Issue numberArt #: 2333
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013

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