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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
  • , Véronique Giudicelli
  • , Patrice Duroux
  • , J. Douglas Freeman
  • , Vincent D.A. Corbin
  • , Jean Pierre Scheerlinck
  • , Michael A. Frohman
  • , Paul U. Cameron
  • , Magdalena Plebanski
  • , Bruce Loveland
  • , Scott R. Burrows
  • , Anthony T. Papenfuss
  • , Eric J. Gowans
  • University of Melbourne
  • Burnet Institute
  • Monash University
  • Université Montpellier 2
  • Queensland Institute of Medical Research
  • Cardiff University
  • University of Queensland
  • Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre
  • Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
  • University of Adelaide

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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.

Original languageEnglish
Article number2333
JournalNature Communications
Volume4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013

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