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Primary and secondary anti-viral response captured by the dynamics and phenotype of individual T cell clones

  1. Anastasia A Minervina  Is a corresponding author
  2. Mikhail V Pogorelyy  Is a corresponding author
  3. Ekaterina A Komech
  4. Vadim K Karnaukhov
  5. Petra Bacher
  6. Elisa Rosati
  7. Andre Franke
  8. Dmitriy Chudakov
  9. Ilgar Z Mamedov
  10. Yuri B Lebedev
  11. Thierry Mora
  12. Aleksandra M Walczak
  1. Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Federation
  2. Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russia
  3. Skoltech, Russian Federation
  4. Kiel University, Germany
  5. École Normale Supérieure, France
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.53704
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  1. Anastasia A Minervina
  2. Mikhail V Pogorelyy
  3. Ekaterina A Komech
  4. Vadim K Karnaukhov
  5. Petra Bacher
  6. Elisa Rosati
  7. Andre Franke
  8. Dmitriy Chudakov
  9. Ilgar Z Mamedov
  10. Yuri B Lebedev
  11. Thierry Mora
  12. Aleksandra M Walczak
(2020)
Primary and secondary anti-viral response captured by the dynamics and phenotype of individual T cell clones
eLife 9:e53704.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.53704
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Abstract

The diverse repertoire of T-cell receptors (TCR) plays a key role in the adaptive immune response to infections. Using TCR alpha and beta repertoire sequencing for T-cell subsets, as well as single-cell RNAseq and TCRseq, we track the concentrations and phenotypes of individual T-cell clones in response to primary and secondary yellow fever immunization — the model for acute infection in humans — showing their large diversity. We confirm the secondary response is an order of magnitude weaker, albeit ∼ 10 days faster than the primary one. Estimating the fraction of the T-cell response directed against the single immunodominant epitope, we identify the sequence features of TCRs that define the high precursor frequency of the two major TCR motifs specific for this particular epitope. We also show the consistency of clonal expansion dynamics between bulk alpha and beta repertoires, using a new methodology to reconstruct alpha-beta pairings from clonal trajectories.

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  1. Anastasia A Minervina

    Department of Genomics of Adaptive Immunity, Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Moscow, Russian Federation
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    aminervina@mail.ru
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    No competing interests declared.
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  2. Mikhail V Pogorelyy

    Department of Genomics of Adaptive Immunity, Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Moscow, Russian Federation
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    m.pogorely@gmail.com
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    No competing interests declared.
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  3. Ekaterina A Komech

    Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Moscow, Russia
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    No competing interests declared.

  4. Vadim K Karnaukhov

    Center of Life Sciences, Skoltech, Moscow, Russian Federation
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    No competing interests declared.

  5. Petra Bacher

    Institute of Immunology, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany
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    No competing interests declared.

  6. Elisa Rosati

    Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany
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    No competing interests declared.
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  7. Andre Franke

    Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Kiel University, Kiel, Germany
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  8. Dmitriy Chudakov

    Department of Genomics of Adaptive Immunity, Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Moscow, Russian Federation
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    No competing interests declared.
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  9. Ilgar Z Mamedov

    Department of Genomics of Adaptive Immunity, Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Moscow, Russian Federation
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  10. Yuri B Lebedev

    Department of Genomics of Adaptive Immunity, Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Moscow, Russian Federation
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    No competing interests declared.
    ORCID icon "This ORCID iD identifies the author of this article:" 0000-0003-4554-4733

  11. Thierry Mora

    Laboratoire de Physique, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
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    No competing interests declared.
    ORCID icon "This ORCID iD identifies the author of this article:" 0000-0002-5456-9361

  12. Aleksandra M Walczak

    Laboratoire de Physique Theorique, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
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    Aleksandra M Walczak, Senior editor, eLife.
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Funding

European Research Council (Consolidator Grant no 724208)

  • Thierry Mora
  • Aleksandra M Walczak

Russian Science Foundation (15-15-00178)

  • Anastasia A Minervina
  • Mikhail V Pogorelyy
  • Ekaterina A Komech
  • Vadim K Karnaukhov
  • Yuri B Lebedev

Russian Foundation for Basic Research (18-29-09132)

  • Ilgar Z Mamedov

Russian Foundation for Basic Research (19-54-12011)

  • Ilgar Z Mamedov

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Exc2167)

  • Petra Bacher
  • Elisa Rosati
  • Andre Franke

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (4096610003)

  • Elisa Rosati

Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (075-15-2019-1660)

  • Dmitriy Chudakov

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

Ethics

Human subjects: All donors gave written informed consent to participate in the study under the declaration of Helsinki. The blood was collected with informed consent in a certified diagnostics laboratory. The experimental protocol was approved by the Ethical Committee of the Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University, Russia (FLU0108, granted January 29, 2016).

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© 2020, Minervina et al.

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  1. Anastasia A Minervina
  2. Mikhail V Pogorelyy
  3. Ekaterina A Komech
  4. Vadim K Karnaukhov
  5. Petra Bacher
  6. Elisa Rosati
  7. Andre Franke
  8. Dmitriy Chudakov
  9. Ilgar Z Mamedov
  10. Yuri B Lebedev
  11. Thierry Mora
  12. Aleksandra M Walczak
(2020)
Primary and secondary anti-viral response captured by the dynamics and phenotype of individual T cell clones
eLife 9:e53704.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.53704

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