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Systems analysis of adaptive immunity by utilization of high-throughput technologies
1Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA.
Insights
New high-throughput technologies enable detailed analysis of adaptive immune cells, like B and T cells. This advances systems immunology by revealing immune cell functions and receptor repertoires after vaccination, infection, or disease.
Area of Science:
- Immunology
- Systems Biology
- Bioinformatics
Background:
- Adaptive immune responses are crucial for health and disease.
- Understanding lymphocyte function and diversity is key to immunology.
- Current methods limit the depth of analysis for immune cell populations.
Purpose of the Study:
- To introduce novel high-throughput technologies for analyzing adaptive immunity.
- To enable quantitative and clonal analysis of lymphocyte populations.
- To characterize immune cell functionalities and receptor repertoires.
Main Methods:
- Development of microfluidic assay systems for functional lymphocyte analysis.
- Utilizing multiplexed protein microarrays for proteomic repertoire characterization.
- Employing high-throughput DNA sequencing for genomic repertoire analysis.
Main Results:
- Unprecedented depth of information on adaptive immune cell distribution.
- Detailed characterization of B and T cell functionalities.
- Insights into receptor repertoire changes upon activation.
Conclusions:
- High-throughput technologies are transforming immunology into an information-rich science.
- These tools facilitate a deeper understanding of adaptive immunity in various states.
- The development of experimental systems immunology is accelerated by these advancements.
Abstract:
A new generation of high-throughput technologies for quantitative and clonal analysis of adaptive immune responses have been developed. Functional analysis of lymphocyte populations has been accomplished via microfluidic assay systems. Additionally, lymphocyte receptor repertoires have been characterized on proteomic and genomic levels with multiplexed protein microarrays and high-throughput DNA sequencing. These tools are providing an unprecedented level of information depth on the distribution of adaptive immune cell (B and T cell) functionalities and repertoires, which develop upon activation following vaccination, pathogenic infection, or in disease states. These various high-throughput technologies have unlocked the potential to transform immunology into an information-rich science that will enable rapid expansion of the field of experimental systems immunology.
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