Garg, Amar K and Desikan, Rajat and Dixit, Narendra M (2019) Preferential Presentation of High-Affinity Immune Complexes in Germinal Centers Can Explain How Passive Immunization Improves the Humoral Response. In: CELL REPORTS, 29 (12). 3946+.
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Abstract
Passive immunization (PI) with external antibodies has been used classically for rapid but temporary alleviation of disease. Transcending this role, recent studies have shown PI to induce lasting improvements in natural antibody production, suggesting that PI could become a powerful tool to engineer humoral responses. We propose a mechanism with which PI can alter the humoral response. Antigen-specific B cells evolve and get selected in germinal centers (GCs) on the basis of their ability to acquire antigen from antibody-antigen complexes presented in GCs. When external antibodies of high affinity for antigen are used, they form the majority of the complexes in GCs, letting only B cells with even higher affinities be selected. Using an in silico GC reaction model, we show that this mechanism explains the improved humoral responses following PI. The model also synthesizes several independent experimental observations, indicating the robustness of the mechanism, and proposes tunable handles to optimize PI.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Publication: | CELL REPORTS |
| Publisher: | CELL PRESS |
| Additional Information: | Copyright of this article belongs to CELL PRESS, 50 HAMPSHIRE ST, FLOOR 5, CAMBRIDGE, MA 02139 USA |
| Keywords: | B-CELL RESPONSES; THERAPEUTIC ANTIBODIES; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; SELECTION; MATURATION; DYNAMICS; INFLUENZA; HIV-1; RECEPTORS; INDUCTION |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Interdisciplinary Sciences > Centre for Biosystems Science and Engineering Division of Mechanical Sciences > Chemical Engineering |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Jan 2020 07:59 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Jan 2020 07:59 |
| URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/64285 |
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