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Localization Analysis of Heterophilic Antigen Epitopes of H1N1 Influenza Virus Hemagglutinin. Virol Sin 2019; 34:306-314. [PMID: 31020574 DOI: 10.1007/s12250-019-00100-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2018] [Accepted: 01/23/2019] [Indexed: 10/26/2022] Open
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Previous studies have indicated that two monoclonal antibodies (mAbs; A1-10 and H1-84) of the hemagglutinin (HA) antigen on the H1N1 influenza virus cross-react with human brain tissue. It has been proposed that there are heterophilic epitopes between the HA protein and human brain tissue (Guo et al. in Immunobiology 220:941-946, 2015). However, characterisation of the two mAbs recognising the heterophilic epitope on HA has not yet been performed. In the present study, the common antigens of influenza virus HA were confirmed using indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays and analysed with DNAMAN software. The epitopes were localized to nine peptides in the influenza virus HA sequence and the distribution of the peptides in the three-dimensional structure of HA was determined using PyMOL software. Key amino acids and variable sequences of the antibodies were identified using abYsis software. The results demonstrated that there were a number of common antigens among the five influenza viruses studied that were recognised by the mAbs. One of the peptides, P2 (LVLWGIHHP191-199), bound both of the mAbs and was located in the head region of HA. The key amino acids of this epitope and the variable regions in the heavy and light chain sequences of the mAbs that recognised the epitope are described. A heterophilic epitope on H1N1 influenza virus HA was also introduced. The existence of this epitope provides a novel perspective for the occurrence of nervous system diseases that could be caused by influenza virus infection, which might aid in influenza prevention and control.
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Muller BH, Savatier A, L'Hostis G, Costa N, Bossus M, Michel S, Ott C, Becquart L, Ruffion A, Stura EA, Ducancel F. In Vitro Affinity Maturation of an Anti-PSA Antibody for Prostate Cancer Diagnostic Assay. J Mol Biol 2011; 414:545-62. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2011.10.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/07/2011] [Revised: 08/30/2011] [Accepted: 10/05/2011] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Gupta SK, Srivastava M, Akhoon BA, Smita S, Schmitz U, Wolkenhauer O, Vera J, Gupta SK. Identification of immunogenic consensus T-cell epitopes in globally distributed influenza-A H1N1 neuraminidase. INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION 2010; 11:308-19. [PMID: 21094280 DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2010.10.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2010] [Revised: 10/15/2010] [Accepted: 10/18/2010] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Antigenic drift is the ability of the swine influenza virus to undergo continuous and progressive changes in response to the host immune system. These changes dictate influenza vaccine updates annually to ensure inclusion of antigens of the most current strains. The identification of those peptides that stimulate T-cell responses, termed T-cell epitopes, is essential for the development of successful vaccines. In this study, the highly conserved and specific epitopes from neuraminidase of globally distributed H1N1 strains were predicted so that these potential vaccine candidates may escape with antigenic drift. A total of nine novel CD8(+) T-cell epitopes for MHC class-I and eight novel CD4(+) T-cell epitopes for MHC class-II alleles were proposed as novel epitope based vaccine candidates. Additionally, the epitope FSYKYGNGV was identified as a highly conserved, immunogenic and potential vaccine candidate, capable for generating both CD8(+) and CD4(+) responses.
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- Shishir K Gupta
- Society for Biological Research & Rural Development, Lucknow, UP, India.
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Dimitrijević LA, Stojanović M, Cirić B, Radulović M, Stojanović R, Popović Z, Inić-Kanada A, Zivković I. Expression of Y7 Cross‐Reactive Idiotope on Human IgM Molecules. Immunol Invest 2009; 33:1-14. [PMID: 15015828 DOI: 10.1081/imm-120027680] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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In this paper we report data regarding the IgM Y7 cross-reactive idiotope (CRIo) obtained by analysis of: 1) its V-gene subgroup dependance, 2) the frequency of its expression on human monoclonal IgMs and IgM molecules from normal and pathological sera. Furthermore, comparison of epitopic repertoire and nature of binding of human monoclonal IgMs expressing Y7 CRIo was performed to confirm the natural antibody properties of these molecules. IgM isolated from sera of patient DJ (IgM DJ) which expresses the Y7 idiotope has been classified to VH3/VL2 subgroup. From ten IgMs tested only IgM from patient RD (IgM RD) has been shown to express Y7 idiotope. Y7+ human IgMs bound to ssDNA, lactic acid bacteria, mouse laminin, porcine thyroglobulin and mouse IgG. Higher percentage of the expression of Y7 CRIo was detected in the sera of patients suffering from autoimmune diseases such as lupus, rheumatoid arthritis and psoriasis vulgaris as well as in patients suffering from chronic infections of the lower urinary tract. Antigen binding repertoire and properties of Y7+ monoclonal IgM, frequency of Y7 expression on monoclonal IgMs and its concentration in normal and pathological sera indicate the important biological role of this CRIo within the immune system.
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Hu B, Wei YQ, Tian L, Zhao X, Lu Y, Wu Y, Yao B, Zhang XW. Human T lymphocyte responses against lung cancer induced by recombinant truncated mouse EGFR. Cancer Immunol Immunother 2006; 55:386-93. [PMID: 16235052 PMCID: PMC11030975 DOI: 10.1007/s00262-005-0028-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2004] [Accepted: 05/05/2005] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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The induction of active cellular responses against EGFR should be a promising approach for the treatment of those receptor-positive tumors. However, the immunity against EGFR is presumably difficult to elicit by vaccine based on self or syngeneic EGFR due to the immune tolerance acquired during the development in immune system. We proposed a model to break immune tolerance against self-EGFR through an altered immunogen source based on xenogeneic homologous EGFR. We have previously shown human EGFR as a xenoantigen could induce specific immune responses in mouse and cross-react with mouse EGFR, and resulted in therapeutic benefits for EGFR-positive mouse tumor. Here, we show a recombinant form of extracellular domain of mouse EGFR, in the presence of DCs, could activate human peripheral T cells to proliferate, secret IFN-gamma, the induced responses could cross-react with human EGFR and kill autologous EGFR-positive lung cancer cells which could be blocked by anti-CD8 and anti-MHC class I antibody. There is no detectable cytotoxical activity against lung tissue, liver tissue and kidney tissue derived from paracancerous normal tissue. These observations suggest that antitumor immunity induced by the truncated mouse EGFR may be provoked in a cross-reaction between mouse EGFR and self-EGFR, and may provide insight into treatment of EGFR-positive tumors through induction of the autoimmune responses against EGFR.
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- Bing Hu
- State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy and Cancer Center, West China Hospital, West China Medical School, Sichuan University, Guo Xue Xiang, No. 37, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610041 The People’s Republic of China
- Chinese National Human Genome Center at Shanghai, Guo Shou-Jing Road, No. 351, Shanghai, 201203 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy and Cancer Center, West China Hospital, West China Medical School, Sichuan University, Guo Xue Xiang, No. 37, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610041 The People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy and Cancer Center, West China Hospital, West China Medical School, Sichuan University, Guo Xue Xiang, No. 37, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610041 The People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy and Cancer Center, West China Hospital, West China Medical School, Sichuan University, Guo Xue Xiang, No. 37, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610041 The People’s Republic of China
- Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Second West China Hospital, West China Medical School, Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610041 China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy and Cancer Center, West China Hospital, West China Medical School, Sichuan University, Guo Xue Xiang, No. 37, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610041 The People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy and Cancer Center, West China Hospital, West China Medical School, Sichuan University, Guo Xue Xiang, No. 37, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610041 The People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy and Cancer Center, West China Hospital, West China Medical School, Sichuan University, Guo Xue Xiang, No. 37, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610041 The People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy and Cancer Center, West China Hospital, West China Medical School, Sichuan University, Guo Xue Xiang, No. 37, Chengdu, Sichuan, 610041 The People’s Republic of China
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Otte L, Knaute T, Schneider-Mergener J, Kramer A. Molecular basis for the binding polyspecificity of an anti-cholera toxin peptide 3 monoclonal antibody. J Mol Recognit 2006; 19:49-59. [PMID: 16273596 DOI: 10.1002/jmr.757] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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The onset of autoimmune diseases is proposed to involve binding promiscuity of antibodies (Abs) and T-cells, an often reported yet poorly understood phenomenon. Here, we attempt to approach two questions: first, is binding promiscuity a general feature of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) and second, what is the molecular basis for polyspecificity? To this end, the anti-cholera toxin peptide 3 (CTP3) mAb TE33 was investigated for polyspecific binding properties. Screening of phage display libraries identified two epitope-unrelated peptides that specifically bound TE33 with affinities similar to or 100-fold higher than the wild-type epitope. Substitutional analyses revealed distinct key residue patterns recognized by the antibody suggesting a unique binding mode for each peptide. A database query with one of the consensus motifs and a subsequent binding study uncovered 45 peptides (derived from heterologous proteins) that bound TE33. To better understand the structural basis of the observed polyspecificity we modeled the new cyclic epitope in complex with TE33. The interactions between this peptide and TE33 suggested by our model are substantially different from the interactions observed in the X-ray structure of the wild-type epitope complex. However, the overall binding conformation of the peptides is similar. Together, our results support the theory of a general polyspecific potential of mAbs.
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- Livia Otte
- Institut für Medizinische Immunologie, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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Marchalonis JJ, Adelman MK, Schluter SF, Ramsland PA. The antibody repertoire in evolution: chance, selection, and continuity. DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY 2006; 30:223-47. [PMID: 16083959 DOI: 10.1016/j.dci.2005.06.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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All jawed vertebrates contain the genetic elements essential for the function of the adaptive/combinatorial immune response, have diverse sets of natural antibodies resulting from segmental gene recombination, express comparable functional repertoires and can produce specific antibodies following appropriate immunization. Profound variability occurs in the third hypervariable (CDR3) segments of light and heavy chains even within antibodies of the same ostensible specificity. Germline VH and VL elements, as well as the joining (J) segments are highly conserved among the distinct vertebrate species. Conservation is particularly noted among the VH3-like sequences of all jawed vertebrates in the FR2 and FR3 segments, as well as in the FGXGT(R or K)L J-segment characteristic of light chains and TCRs and the WGXGT(uncharged)VT JH segments. Human VH3-53 and Vlambda6 family orthologs may be present over the entire range of vertebrates. Models of the three-dimensional structures of shark VH/VL combining sites indicate similarity in framework structure and comparable CDR usage to those of man. Although carcharhine shark VH regions show greater than 50% identity to the human VH germline prototype, searches of lower deuterostome and invertebrate databases fail to detect molecules with significant relatedness. Overall, antibodies of jawed vertebrates show tremendous individual diversity, but are constructed incorporating design features that arose with the evolutionary emergence of the jawed vertebrates and have been conserved through at least 450 million years of evolutionary time.
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- John J Marchalonis
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, University of Arizona, 1501 N. Campbell Ave., Tucson, AZ 85724-5049, USA.
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Stadler MB, Arnold D, Frieden S, Luginbühl S, Stadler BM. Single nucleotide polymorphisms as a prerequisite for autoantigens. Eur J Immunol 2005; 35:371-8. [PMID: 15627977 DOI: 10.1002/eji.200425481] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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It is still elusive why certain self proteins induce an autoimmune response. One immunological hypothesis is that only modified or altered self-proteins may become a target. Thus, we asked whether such alterations may actually be genetic polymorphisms that can be revealed by analyzing sequence variability in the known human autoantigens. Indeed, we found autoantigens to contain significantly more single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) than other human genes do. Our finding may offer an explanation for autoimmune responses through allogeneic exposure. Besides other contributing factors in autoimmunity, SNP may represent an essential prerequisite for the primary induction of an autoimmune response.
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Adelman MK, Schluter SF, Marchalonis JJ. The natural antibody repertoire of sharks and humans recognizes the potential universe of antigens. Protein J 2004; 23:103-18. [PMID: 15106876 DOI: 10.1023/b:jopc.0000020077.73751.76] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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In ancestral sharks, a rapid emergence in the evolution of the immune system occurred, giving jawed-vertebrates the necessary components for the combinatorial immune response (CIR). To compare the natural antibody (NAb) repertoires of the most divergent vertebrates with the capacity to produce antibodies, we isolated NAbs to the same set of antigens by affinity chromatography from two species of Carcharhine sharks and from human polyclonal IgG and IgM antibody preparations. The activities of the affinity-purified anti-T-cell receptor (anti-TCR) NAbs were compared with those of monoclonal anti-TCR NAbs that were generated from a systemic lupus erythematosus patient. We report that sharks and humans, representing the evolutionary extremes of vertebrate species sharing the CIR, have NAbs to human TCRs, Igs, the human senescent cell antigen, and to numerous retroviral antigens, indicating that essential features of the combinatorial repertoire and the capacity to recognize the potential universe of antigens is shared among all jawed-vertebrates.
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- Miranda K Adelman
- Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85724, USA
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Zemlin M, Klinger M, Link J, Zemlin C, Bauer K, Engler JA, Schroeder HW, Kirkham PM. Expressed murine and human CDR-H3 intervals of equal length exhibit distinct repertoires that differ in their amino acid composition and predicted range of structures. J Mol Biol 2004; 334:733-49. [PMID: 14636599 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2003.10.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 261] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Immunoglobulin junctional diversity is concentrated in the third complementarity-determining region of the heavy chain (CDR-H3), which often plays a dominant role in antigen binding. The range of CDR-H3 lengths in mouse is shorter than in human, and thus the murine repertoire could be presumed to be a subset of the human one. To test this presumption, we analyzed 4751 human and 2170 murine unique, functional, published CDR-H3 intervals. Although tyrosine, glycine, and serine were found to predominate in both species, the human sequences contained fewer tyrosine residues, more proline residues, and more hydrophobic residues (p<0.001, respectively). While changes in amino acid utilization as a function of CDR-H3 length followed similar trends in both species, murine and human CDR-H3 intervals of identical length were found to differ from each other. These differences reflect both divergence of germline diversity and joining gene sequence and somatic selection. Together, these factors promote the production of a rather uniform repertoire in mice of tyrosine-enriched CDR-H3 loops with stabilized hydrogen bond-ladders versus a much more diverse repertoire in human that contains CDR-H3 loops sculpted by the presence of intra-chain disulfide bonds due to germline-encoded cysteine residues as well as the enhanced presence of somatically generated proline residues that preclude hydrogen bond ladder formation. Thus, despite the presumed need to recognize a similar range of antigen epitopes, the murine CDR-H3 repertoire is clearly distinct from its human counterpart in its amino acid composition and its predicted range of structures. These findings represent a benchmark to which CDR-H3 repertoires can be compared to better characterize and understand the shaping of the CDR-H3 repertoire over evolution and during immune responses. This information may also be useful for the design of species-specific CDR-H3 sequences in synthetic antibody libraries.
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- Michael Zemlin
- Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1530 3rd Avenue South, Birmingham, AL 35294-3300, USA
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Marchalonis JJ, Jensen I, Schluter SF. Structural, antigenic and evolutionary analyses of immunoglobulins and T cell receptors. J Mol Recognit 2002; 15:260-71. [PMID: 12447902 DOI: 10.1002/jmr.586] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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We have had the pleasure of collaborating with Allen Edmundson for the past 15 years on the structure, binding properties and evolution of immunoglobulins and T cell receptors. Among the most significant contributions of our joint efforts were: (1) the predictive use of structural features of immunoglobulin domains to model the three-dimensional structures of the immunoglobulin domains of human T-cell receptor alpha and beta chains as well as shark light chains and V(H) domains; (2) the finding that normal humans and other vertebrates express autoantibodies against combining site epitopes of their own T cell receptors; (3) the mapping of the peptide autoepitopes recognized in health, autoimmunity and retroviral infection; and (4) the determination that epitope recognition promiscuity is a characteristic property of the combining sites of IgM immunoglobulins ranging from those of sharks to those of humans. We briefly review the salient findings and status of these studies and indicate the future directions that we will pursue in their continuation.
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- John J Marchalonis
- University of Arizona, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, Tucson, AZ 85724, USA.
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