Full Text - In our previous study, we found that low thymic output and short telomere length were associated with a higher risk of tumor in elderly cancer patients. Here, we aimed to examine in depth the impact of immunological and biological senescence and immune activation on disease outcome in elderly patients with colorectal cancer (CRC).Peripheral blood samples from 81 CRC patients were studied for immune activation, immune senescence and recent thymic emigrant(RTE) CD4 and CD8 cells by flow cytometry. T-cell receptor rearrangement excision circle (TREC) levels and telomere lengths were measured by real-time PCR. Plasma levels of microbial translocation markers, LPS and sCD14, were quantified by ELISA. While TREC levels and telomere length were not prognostic of disease outcome, high percentages of immune senescent and immune activated CD8 cells were associated with a higher risk of a negative event (relapse, progression, or death) in all studied patients and disease relapse in I-III staged

Background. Recovery of thymopoiesis after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation is considered pivotal for full immune competence. However, it is still unclear to what extent insufficient recovery of thymopoiesis predicts for subsequent opportunistic infections and non-relapse mortality. Design and methods. A detailed survey of all post-engraftment infectious complications, non-relapse mortality and overall survival during long-term follow-up was performed in 83 recipients of allogeneic stem cell grafts after myeloablative conditioning. Recovery of thymopoiesis was assessed using signal joint T-cell receptor rearrangement excision circles analysis. The impact of recovery of thymopoiesis at 2, 6, 9 and 12 months post-transplantation on clinical outcome beyond those time points was evaluated by univariate and multivariate Cox regression analyses. Results. A cumulative incidence of 66% severe infections at 12 months after transplantation was noted with a median number of 1.64 severe ...

T-cell receptor gene rearrangement and expression in human natural killer cells: natural killer activity is not dependent on the rearrangement and expression of T-cell receptor alpha, beta, or gamma genes. Immunogenetics. 1988; 27(4):231-8 ...

The concentration of T-cell receptor rearrangement excision DNA circles (TRECs) in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) is currently known to be a marker of recent thymic emigrants. We evaluated the hypothesis that TREC values would be lower in childhood T-cell hematopoietic malignancies than …

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T-cell receptor excision circle levels after allogeneic stem cell transplantation are predictive of relapse in patients with acute myeloid leukemia and myelodys

Study Objective: T cell receptor excision circles (TRECs) are episomal DNA circles excised from the T cell receptor genes during T cell maturation in the thymus. They do not replicate, so they are diluted out as T cells proliferate. Our objectives are to examine the levels of TRECs in blood samples from patients with primary immunodeficiency (PI) diseases; to determine which PI diseases might be detected by testing newborn dried blood spots for low numbers of TRECs; and to use the blood spots collected for future confirmatory or alternative tests to develop newborn screening for PIs.. Population: Patients diagnosed with defined primary T cell immunodeficiency diseases or undefined conditions with very low T cell numbers. There are several known, and additional unknown, gene defects that impair T lymphocyte maturation and function. The frequency of these rare disorders is unknown, but could potentially be learned in the course of population-based newborn screening.. Design: We will contact our ...

Following Infants with Low Lymphocytes program. As discussed at the 2016 CIS annual meeting, the Following Infants with Low Lymphocytes: FILLing the Gap registry is now online https://usidnet.org/fill/. The CIS, in collaboration with the United States Immunodeficiency Network and the Jeffrey Modell Foundation have now established a registry to longitudinally collect key clinical and laboratory data, including diagnosis, treatment and outcomes for infants found to have T cell lymphopenia (TCL) as detected by newborn screening using the T cell receptor excision circle assay. This resource will make possible determination of the relative frequency and natural history of TCL as well as the other known causes of low lymphocytes. This registry will collect longitudinal (retrospective and prospective) clinical and immunological data that is already being generated in the course of clinical care to define the status over time of this group of infants and others born with low T cells including the ...

The stratification of patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) into treatment risk groups based on quantification of minimal residual disease (MRD) after induction therapy is now well accepted but the relapse rate of about 20% in intermediate risk patients remains a challenge. The purpose of this study was to further improve stratification by MRD measurement at an earlier stage. MRD was measured in stored day 15 bone marrow samples for pediatric patients enrolled on ANZCHOG ALL8 using Real-time Quantitative PCR to detect immunoglobulin and T-cell receptor gene rearrangements with the same assays used at day 33 and day 79 in the original MRD stratification ...

BACKGROUND: Real-time PCR is increasingly being adopted for RNA quantification and genetic analysis. At present the most popular real-time PCR assay is based on the hybridisation of a dual-labelled probe to the PCR product, and the development of a signal by loss of fluorescence quenching as PCR degrades the probe. Though this so-called TaqMan approach has proved easy to optimise in practice, the dual-labelled probes are relatively expensive. RESULTS: We have designed a new assay based on SYBR-Green I binding that is quick, reliable, easily optimised and compares well with the published assay. Here we demonstrate its general applicability by measuring copy number in three different genetic contexts; the quantification of a gene rearrangement (T-cell receptor excision circles (TREC) in peripheral blood mononuclear cells); the detection and quantification of GLI, MYC-C and MYC-N gene amplification in cell lines and cancer biopsies; and detection of deletions in the OPA1 gene in dominant optic ...

Eleven patients (7.0%) with persisting (partial) villous atrophy were considered to have RCD; 5 of them developed EATL [27].RCD type I is characterized by normal expression of T-cell antigens and polyclonal TCR gene rearrangement.RCD type II is characterized by an abnormal IEL phenotype with the expression of intracytoplasmic CD3e, surface CD103, and the lack of classic surface T-cell markers such as CD8, CD4, and TCR-alpha/beta ...

Aim: To compare clonal T cell receptor γ (TCRγ) gene rearrangements in frozen and formalin-fixed paraffin wax-embedded (FFPE) tissue, using capillary electrophoresis for use in diagnostics, as T cell lymphomas may be difficult to diagnose by conventional methods.. Methods: The DNA for PCR was extracted from frozen and FFPE tissue, cell lines and blood. PCR primers Vγ1-8, Vγ9, Vγ10 or Vγ11 (5′ end labelled) combined with a mixture of JγP1/JγP/JγP2/Jγ2 (unlabelled) were used. Monoclonal cases were sequenced and clonality, reproducibility, sensitivity and specificity analyses were carried out.. Results: In all cases the molecular test was found to be in agreement with the histological diagnosis. Discrepancies were found between frozen and FFPE tissue in 18 of 56 (32%) tests. The method was highly reproducible. The sensitivity was found to be 0.5% for cell lines and 1% for patient specimens and the specificity 100%. The junctional region between the Vγ and Jγ segments was specific for ...

Mononuclear cells infiltrate degenerating muscles of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) patients. Using a quantitative PCR, we first characterized the T cells infiltrating muscle biopsies from six DMD patients. High levels of TCR V beta 2 transcripts were observed in DMD muscle tissue. TCR V beta 2 transcripts from seven DMD patients and five controls were sequenced, and the VDJ junctional region analyzed in 166 clones. One specific amino acid motif, RVSG, was found in the third complementary determining region (CDR3) of TCR V beta 2 chains in samples from five DMD patients, but not in controls. A specific immune reaction at the site of tissue degeneration may play an important role in the pathogenesis of DMD. ...

Introduction Juvenile idiopathic arthritis is a heterogeneous T cell-mediated autoimmune disease with symptoms of premature aging of the immune system (immunosenescence). The present work is an investigation of immunosenescence parameters, such as quantity of naive and CD28- T cells, T cell receptor excision circles, relative telomere length and alterations of peripheral T cell replication, and was performed via comparison of a case of acute exacerbation of juvenile idiopathic arthritis against six patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis with disease remission and six age-matched healthy donors over a follow-up course of 12 months. Case presentation Phenotypical T cell characterization and intracellular interferon γ, tumor necrosis factor α, and interleukin 2 production were studied in peripheral blood mononuclear cells from seven patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis and six healthy control donors, with findings determined by flow cytometry. T cell receptor excision circles and ...

TY - JOUR. T1 - Determination of thymic function direct from peripheral blood. T2 - A validated modification to an established method. AU - Lorenzi, A. R.. AU - Patterson, Angela Margaret. AU - Pratt, A.. AU - Jefferson, M.. AU - Chapman, C. E.. AU - Ponchel, F.. AU - Isaacs, J. D.. PY - 2008/12/31. Y1 - 2008/12/31. N2 - The thymus contributes naive, self MHC reactive, self tolerant T cells to the peripheral immune system throughout life, albeit with a log-linear decline with age. Quantification of thymic function is clinically relevant in the setting of lymphoablation, but a phenotypic marker distinguishing recent thymic emigrants from long lived naive T cells remains elusive. T cell receptor excision circles (TREC) are present in thymocytes exiting the thymus and quantification of the most frequent of these, the delta rec-Psi J alpha rearrangement has been widely used as a measure of recent thymic function. However, interpretation of results presented as TREC per cell has been criticised on ...

Advances in our understanding of the structure and molecular biology of the T lymphocyte antigen-receptor have now made it feasible to study human autoimmune diseases using new approaches. One such approach involves cloning of T cells from sites of autoimmune pathology followed by identification of putative disease-related T cell oligoclonality at the level of the T cell receptor gene rearrangements. We have now tested the feasibility of this approach in an animal model of autoimmunity, murine experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE). Spinal cord-derived, self (murine) myelin basic protein (MBP)-reactive T cell lines and sublines were analyzed at the level of their receptor beta chain rearrangements using Southern blots. We now report that the MBP-reactive T cell lines and sublines derived from the spinal cords of four of five SJL/J mice with EAE share a 14.5-kb rearranged T cell receptor beta 1 band on Southern blots. A spinal cord-derived T cell line that was reactive to purified protein ...

Data suggest that while antigen presenting function is relatively well preserved during the ageing process [5], lymphocyte function is perturbed, characterised by depression of both cellular and humoral immunity. Accordingly, to begin to address how ageing influences immunity, a focus on lymphocyte biology seems a good starting point. For example, over the decades numerous studies have reported altered production of T cell progenitors, reductions in the generation of naïve T cells, ageing of resting and clonally expanding cells, and in particular disrupted intracellular signalling leading to perturbations in cytoskeleton reorganisation and cell migration (reviewed in [6]). In this issue, Goronzy and Weyand begin by exploring how the dynamics of T cell repertoire diversity promote the expansion of effector cells [7]. Through an analysis of the expression of T cell receptor excision circles as surrogate markers of recent thymic emigrants, together with assays of telomerase activity, they have ...

Moebius U, Manns M, Hess G, Kober G, Meyer zum Buschenfelde KH, Meuer SC. T cell receptor gene rearrangements of T lymphocytes infiltrating the liver in chronic active hepatitis B and primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC): oligoclonality of PBC-derived T cell clones. Eur J Immunol 1990;20:889-896 ...

Twenty-two patients with CD4+cell counts 200 cells/L after 12 months of stable highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART; immunologic nonresponders) were randomly assigned to receive subcutaneous low-dose prolonged intermittent interleukin (IL) 2 in addition to HAART (n = 12) or to continue HAART alone (n = 10). At 48 weeks of follow-up, no IL-2related serious adverse events and no significant differences in plasma human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) RNA level were observed in the 2 groups. A higher incidence of HIV-related clinical events was observed among patients receiving HAART alone (3/10) than among subjects receiving HAART plus IL-2 (0/12). Significant increases in CD4+, naive, and CD4+CD7+ cells and plasma levels of IL-7 were observed in patients receiving IL-2 versus patients receiving HAART alone. A significant increase in cell turnover did not lead to a decrease in the frequency of T cell receptor excision circles, which remained stable. Rather, increased numbers of T cell ...

Acute leukemias (AL) comprise a heterogeneous group of hematologic malignancies, and individual patient responses to treatment can be difficult to predict. Monitoring of minimal residual disease (MRD) is thus very important and holds great potential for improving treatment strategies. Common MRD targets include immunoglobulin heavy chain or T-cell receptor gene rearrangements, recurrent cytogenetic abnormalities and mutations in important hematological genes. Whereas in the majority of adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia patients a suitable MRD target can be identified, in adult acute myeloid leukemia patients well-characterized targets are found in only half of cases. The identification of new specific molecular markers of leukemic blasts for MRD assessment, particularly in AML patients, is therefore highly desirable. Our aim was to develop a flexible strategy for mapping of cytogenetically identified unique clone-specific abnormalities down to the single nucleotide level and, based on the ...

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Video articles in JoVE include An IL-8 Transiently Transgenized Mouse Model for the In Vivo Long-term Monitoring of Inflammatory Responses, fMRI Mapping of Brain Activity Associated with the Vocal Production of Consonant and Dissonant Intervals, Methodology for the Study of Horizontal Gene Transfer in Staphylococcus aureus, Working with Auditory HEI-OC1 Cells, Intravascular Delivery of Biologics to the Rat Kidney, Simultaneous Quantification of T-Cell Receptor Excision Circles (TRECs) and K-Deleting Recombination Excision Circles (KRECs) by Real-time PCR, From a 2DE-Gel Spot to Protein Function: Lesson Learned From HS1 in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia, Bone Marrow-derived Macrophage Production, Simple and Efficient Technique for the Preparation of Testicular Cell Suspensions, A Caenorhabditis elegans Model System for Amylopathy Study.

IN ADDITION, patients must satisfy the following Laboratory Criteria AND Clinical Criteria. Laboratory Criteria: (greater than or equal to 1 must be present). i. CD4+ lymphocytes: absolute number less than or equal to 50 percent of the lower limit of normal (LLN). ii. CD4 plus CD45RA+ lymphocytes: absolute number less than or equal to 50 percent of the LLN OR T-cell receptor excision circles (TRECs)squared less than or equal to 5 percent of normal for age.. iii. Memory B Cells: absolute numberless than or equal to 50percent of LLN. iv. If serum IgM,normal for age. v. NK cells: absolute number less than or equal to 50 percent of LLN. vi. Lymphocyte proliferative response to each of 2 mitogens, phytohemagglutinin (PHA) and concanavalin A (ConA), is squared 25 percent with a normal control.. vii. Molecular spectratype analysis- absent or very oligoclonal (1-3 dominant peaks) in greater than or equal to 6 of the 24 V- Beta T-cell receptor families.. Clinical Criteria: (greater than or equal to 1 ...

Chapter1 Properties and Overview of Immune Responses. Chapter2 Cells and Tissues of the Immune System. Chapter3 Leukocyte Circulation and Migration into Tissues. Chapter4 Innate Immunity. Chapter5 Antibodies and Antigens. Chapter6 Antigen Presentation to T Lymphocytes and the Functions of MHC Molecules. Chapter7 Immune Receptors and Signal Transduction. Chapter8 Lymphocyte Development and Antigen Receptor Gene Rearrangement. Chapter9 Activation of T Lymphocytes. Chapter 10 Differentiation and Functions of CD4+ Effector T Cells. Chapter 11 Differentiation and Functions of CD8+ Effector T Cells. Chapter 12 B Cell Activation and Antibody Production. Chapter 13 Effector Mechanisms of Humoral Immunity. Chapter 14 Specialized Immunity at Epithelial Barriers and in Immune Privileged Tissues. Chapter 15 Immunologic Tolerance and Autoimmunity. Chapter 16 Immunity to Microbes. Chapter 17 Transplantation Immunology. Chapter 18 Immunity to Tumors. Chapter 19 Hypersensitivity Disorders Chapter 20 ...

By sequencing tens of millions of TCRα transcripts from naive mouse CD8+ T cells, Genolet et al (2012) show that the TCRα repertoire is at least as diverse as the TCRβ repertoire. This overturns a long held view in the field that recombination of the Tcra locus occurs in a co‐ordinate sequential bidirectional manner that relies on proximity of Vα and Jα gene segments. The observation that rearrangement of all possible Vα‐Jα combinations can occur is consistent with an alternative model in which intralocus loop formation/locus contraction enables an opportunity for all Vα gene segments to recombine with Jα gene segments.. There is an Article (April 2012) associated with this Have you seen?. ...

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Background Homeostatic mechanisms to maintain the T cell compartment diversity indicate an ongoing process of thymic activity and peripheral T cell renewal during human life. These processes are expected to be accelerated after childhood thymectomy and by the influence of cytomegalovirus (CMV) inducing a prematurely aged immune system. The study aimed to investigate proportional changes and replicative history of CD8+ T cells, of recent thymic emigrants (RTEs) and CD103+ T cells (mostly gut-experienced) and the role of Interleukin-(IL)-7 and IL-7 receptor (CD127)-expressing T cells in thymectomized patients compared to young and old healthy controls. Results Decreased proportions of naive and CD31 + CD8+ T cells were demonstrated after thymectomy, with higher proliferative activity of CD127-expressing T cells and significantly shorter relative telomere lengths (RTLs) and lower T cell receptor excision circles (TRECs). Increased circulating CD103+ T cells and a skewed T cell receptor (TCR) ...

Cytogenetic and molecular investigations of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia (ALL) have identified the existence of distinct clinical subgroups. Molecular monitoring of clonal Immunoglobulin and T cell receptor (IG/TR) gene rearrangements has become an important tool in stratification of therapy of ALL. In order to determine whether certain features of the patient-specific rearrangements could hold further prognostic clues or provide information on the cell of origin of ALL, a comprehensive analysis of structural and biological features (V gene usage, coding frame and mutational status and complementarity-determining region -III length) of 473 IG/TR rearrangements identified in 229 adults with ALL was carried out. Distinct variable-gene usage profiles were identified between ALL subgroups, particularly for patients positive for BCR-ABL1 compared to MLL-AFF1 positive leukaemias; suggesting that the former is derived from a more mature B progenitor. Interestingly, occurrence of TRGV1-TRGV8 was prognostic for

1. Cave H, van der Werff ten Bosch J, Suciu S, et al. Clinical significance of minimal residual disease in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia. European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer-Childhood Leukemia Cooperative Group. N Engl J Med 1998; 339: 591-598. 2. Coustan Smith E, Sancho J, Hancock ML, et al. Clinical importance of minimal residual disease in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Blood 2000; 96: 2691-2696. 3. van Dongen JJ, Seriu T, Panzer-Grumayer ER, et al. Prognostic value of minimal residual disease in acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in childhood. Lancet 1998; 352: 1731-1738. 4. Flohr T, Schrauder A, Cazzaniga G, et al. Minimal residual disease-directed risk stratification using real-time quantitative PCR analysis of immunoglobulin and T-cell receptor gene rearrangements in the international multicenter trial AIEOP-BFM ALL 2000 for childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Leukemia 2008; 22: 771-782. 5. Pui CH, Relling MV, Sandlund JT, et al. Rationale and ...

Morinishi Y, Imai K, Nakagawa N, Sato H, Horiuchi K, Ohtsuka Y, Kaneda Y, Taga T, Hisakawa H, Miyaji R, Endo M, Oh-Ishi T, Kamachi Y, Akahane K, Kobayashi C, Tsuchida M, Morio T, Sasahara Y, Kumaki S, Ishigaki K, Yoshida M, Urabe T, Kobayashi N, Okimoto Y, Reichenbach J, Hashii Y, Tsuji Y, Kogawa K, Yamaguchi S, Kanegane H, Miyawaki T, Yamada M, Ariga T, Nonoyama S. Identification of severe combined immunodeficiency by T-cell receptor excision circles quantification using neonatal guthrie cards. J Pediatr. 2009 Dec; 155(6):829-33 ...

Aim: Immunoglobulin (Ig) and T-cell receptor (TCR) gene rearrangements are excellent patient-specific targets for clonality studies and monitoring of acute

Two teams, among the groups working on cancer at IPBS, investigate DNA transactions in pathological (ionizing radiations and clastogenic chemotherapeutic drugs) and physiological settings (antigen receptor rearrangements). Their respective projects highly benefit from collaborations with other IPBS teams specialized in NMR, structural biology and computer simulation, and from in-house core facilities such as proteomics, advanced light microscopy (two-photon microscopy), and animal facilities ...

TY - JOUR. T1 - The RAG2 C-terminus and ATM protect genome integrity by controlling antigen receptor gene cleavage. AU - Chaumeil, Julie. AU - Micsinai, Mariann. AU - Ntziachristos, Panagiotis. AU - Roth, David B.. AU - Aifantis, Iannis. AU - Kluger, Yuval. AU - Deriano, Ludovic. AU - Skok, Jane A.. N1 - Funding Information: We thank D. Schatz, Y. Ji and G. Teng for providing the RAG1-deficient mice, and M. Nussenzweig and D. Robbiani for providing the 53BP1-deficient mice. We would like to thank J. Allinne, S. Hewitt, C. Proudhon, R. Raviram, P. Rocha, M. Sellars and T. Trimarchi for their help with 4C-seq experiments and analyses, E. Nora for his help with Image J, and members of the Skok lab for thoughtful discussions and comments on the study. This work is supported by the National Institute of Health: RO1GM086852 and R56NIAIDAI099111 (J.A.S.); CA-16359 (Y.K.); RO1CA133379, RO1CA105129, RO1CA149655, RO1CA173636 and RO1GM088847 (I.A.); and CA104588 (D.B.R.). J.A.S is an LLS scholar. J.C. is ...

VetVine is an accredited Continuing Education provider for veterinary professionals and resource of expert-driven pet health information for pet owners. This is the forum topic view page. Feline small intestinal lymphoma is most commonly a mucosal T-cell lymphoma (SCL) and confident diagnosis remains challenging, as it presents histologically similar to inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Distinguishing between SCL and IBD is important since > 50% of cats with SCL die within 1 year while > 30% of cats with IBD are still alive after 1 year, and treatment may be different for the 2 conditions. Diagnosis of SCL is most appropriately based on combination of histology, immunohistochemical phenotyping (CD3 – T cell, CD79a – B cell), and polymer chain reaction to assess antigen receptor gene rearrangements (PARR). PARR improves diagnosis by amplifying genes for T-cell receptor gamma (TCRG) in the case of T cell phenotype or genes for immunoglobulin heavy change (IGH) in case of B cell

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Background In the adaptive disease fighting capability, variable regions of immunoglobulin (IG) are encoded by random recombination of variable (V), diversity (D), and joining (J) gene segments in the germline. appropriate parameters. Special efforts have been paid to improve the identification accuracy of the short and volatile region, IGHD. In particular, a threshold score for certain specificity and sensitivity is provided to give the confidence level of the IGHD identification. Conclusion Nutlin-3 When examined using different pieces of both simulated data and experimental data, Ab-origin outperformed the rest of the five popular equipment with regards to prediction accuracy. The top features of batch confidence and query indication of IGHD identification would provide extra help users. The program is certainly freely offered by http://mpsq.biosino.org/ab-origin/supplementary.html. History Among the strategies our disease fighting capability adopts to combat off intruders is certainly to ...

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TY - JOUR. T1 - Autoimmune neutropenia in multiple myeloma and the role of clonal t-cell expansion. T2 - Evidence of cross-talk between B-cell and T-cell lineages?. AU - Aryal, Madan Raj. AU - Bhatt, Vijaya Raj. AU - Tandra, Pavankumar. AU - Krishnamurthy, Jairam. AU - Yuan, Ji. AU - Greiner, Timothy C.. AU - Akhtari, Mojtaba. PY - 2014/2/1. Y1 - 2014/2/1. N2 - Autoimmune neutropenia (AIN), characterized by an absolute neutrophil count below 1500 cells/mL in the presence of autoantibodies directed against neutrophil antigens, can be secondary to a variety of underlying diseases, such as connective tissue diseases, infections, and malignancies. However, it has not been reported in association with multiple myeloma (MM). We report a case of AIN in a patient with MM who also had a population of small lymphocytes with T-cell receptor gamma chain gene rearrangements. We also review other autoimmune manifestations of MM, the role of T-cell receptor gene rearrangement in AIN, and the implications of ...

T cells play an important role in the pathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Clonal expansion of T cells correlating with disease activity has been observed in peripheral blood (PB) of SLE subjects. Recently, next-generation sequencing (NGS) of the T cell receptor (TCR) β loci has emerged as a sensitive way to measure the T cell repertoire. In this study, we utilized NGS to assess whether changes in T cell repertoire diversity in PB of SLE patients correlate with or predict changes in disease activity. Total RNA was isolated from the PB of 11 SLE patients. Each subject had three samples, collected at periods of clinical quiescence and at a flare. Twelve age-matched healthy controls (HC) were used for reference. NGS was used to profile the complementarity-determining region 3 (CDR3) of the rearranged TCR β loci. Relative to the HC, SLE patients (at quiescence) demonstrated a 2.2-fold reduction in repertoire diversity in a given PB volume (P |0.0002), a more uneven distribution of the

An earlier perspective on the structure of lymphocyte receptor repertoires held that the repertoires are primarily unbiased with respect to the frequencies of receptor genes (reviewed in ref. 32), and that significant biases in those frequencies are mainly due to lymphocyte selection and clonal expansion. However, recent work has shown that TCRB gene segment frequencies are substantially biased even in the primary TCRB repertoire, before T-cell selection (32, 33). Focusing on frequencies of Dβ-Jβ pairing, our results indicate a general mechanism that shapes biases in gene segment use. The model shows how biases in Jβ gene use can emerge naturally from differences in the degree to which chromatin conformation constrains rearrangement rates between different pairs of genes, according to the genomic distances between them. Previous work (23, 24) showed that rearrangement frequencies for synthetic sequence constructs representing simplified models of lymphocyte receptor loci can be predicted ...

Background In the adaptive disease fighting capability, variable regions of immunoglobulin (IG) are encoded by random recombination of variable (V), diversity (D), and joining (J) gene segments in the germline. appropriate parameters. Special efforts have been paid to improve the identification accuracy of the short and volatile region, IGHD. In particular, a threshold score for certain specificity and sensitivity is provided to give the confidence level of the IGHD identification. Conclusion Nutlin-3 When examined using different pieces of both simulated data and experimental data, Ab-origin outperformed the rest of the five popular equipment with regards to prediction accuracy. The top features of batch confidence and query indication of IGHD identification would provide extra help users. The program is certainly freely offered by http://mpsq.biosino.org/ab-origin/supplementary.html. History Among the strategies our disease fighting capability adopts to combat off intruders is certainly to ...

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Browsing NGS databases for TRK gene rearrangements can lead to more profound questions regarding their origin. In our sister website we had only one example of an TRK2 gene rearrangement, QKI-TRK2. The COSMIC database was searched revealing one more TRK2 ...

The Ireland-Claisen rearrangement is the central step in the synthesis of tubuphenylalanine, a key building block of the highly antitumor-active tubulysins. The rearrangement of substituted β-amino acid allyl esters, in combination with subsequent d

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The preCT cell receptor (TCR) associates with CD3-transducing subunits and triggers the selective expansion and maturation of T cell precursors expressing a TCR- chain. divided into two subsets based on the structure of their TCR. In the adult mouse, most T cells express a TCR heterodimer consisting of and chains, whereas a minor population expresses an alternative TCR isoform made of and chains. Each of these four TCR chains includes a clonally variable (V)1 region encoded by genes that are assembled via somatic site-specific DNA recombination reactions. These reactions, termed V(D)J rearrangements (D, diversity; J, joining), result in the random recombination of V and J gene segments in TCR- and TCR- chain genes, and of V, D, and J gene segments in TCR- and TCR- genes. V(D)J joining reactions may result FG-4592 irreversible inhibition either in productive rearrangements that maintain an open reading frame throughout the gene, or in an out-of-frame nonfunctional gene. Because T lymphocytes are ...

The crucial checkpoints that determine T-cell fate along with various differentiation pathways have been genetically defined. Still there are many uncharacterized genes whose roles in thymus and T cell development have yet to be established. One such example is Thymocyte specific cAMP-regulated phosphoprotein (thymocyte Arpp21 or Tarpp). Although TARPP protein is highly expressed in immature T cells and is down-regulated immediately after T-cell receptor (TCR) gene rearrangements, Tarpp KO mice did not have any apparent immunological phenotype. We hypothesized that two other proteins sharing high homology and RNA-binding domains with TARPP, R3h-domain containing protein 1 and 2 (R3HDM1 and R3HDM2) are able to compensate its function in vivo. Through generation of R3hdm1 and R3hdm2 KO mice, we intended to characterize role of these two RNA-binding proteins in murine hematopoiesis. R3hdm1, R3hdm2 and newly derived Tarpp KO (-/-) mice were viable but surprisingly did not have any immunological ...

Immunotherapy is now an effective treatment for cancer, where the information on cancer-antigen-specific IG or TR as well as the epitopes, is essential for its use. In particular, genetic engineering, such as the improvement of antibody sequences as molecular target drugs or the design of epitope peptides for cancer vaccines, are of great interest to clinicians and pharmacologists. For such studies, a sequence-based database for cancer immunological genes has potential utility. In addition, sequence comparison tools and structural data are useful for genetic engineering, combined with library screening methods in a laboratory [33, 34]. Our database, the CIG-DB, thus may meet the needs of researchers involved in such cancer studies. Moreover, this database is also designed as a reference-based platform, equipped with a search engine by MeSH terms, title, and abstract words (Figure 2a). In previous public databases, one could find the immunological gene sequences, but the references were not ...

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