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ArticleBiophysical journal2012

A generalized mathematical model to estimate T- and B-cell receptor diversities using AmpliCot.

Irina Baltcheva, Ellen Veel, Thomas Volman, Dan Koning, Anja Brouwer, Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Kiki Tesselaar, Rob J de Boer, José A M Borghans

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Article in Biophysical journal, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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9 authors.

Irina BaltchevaLaboratory for Computer Communications and Applications, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. irina.baltcheva@gmail.com
Ellen Veel
Thomas Volman
Dan Koning
Anja Brouwer
Jean-Yves Le Boudec
Kiki Tesselaar
Rob J de Boer
José A M Borghans

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Abstract

The efficiency of the adaptive immune system is dependent on the diversity of T- and B-cell receptors, which is created by random rearrangement of receptor gene segments. AmpliCot is an experimental technique that allows the measurement of the diversity of the T- and B-cell repertoire. This procedure has the advantage over other cloning and sequencing techniques of being time- and expense-effective. In previous studies, receptor diversity, measured with AmpliCot, has been inferred assuming a second-order kinetics model. The latter implies that the relation between diversity and concentration × time (Cot) values is linear. We show that a more detailed model, involving heteroduplex and transient-duplex formation, leads to significantly better fits of experimental data and to nonlinear diversity-Cot relations. We propose an alternative fitting procedure, which is straightforward to apply and which gives an improved description of the relationship between Cot values and diversity.

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Models, BiologicalAlgorithmsKineticsNonlinear DynamicsReceptors, Antigen, B-CellReceptors, Antigen, T-CellSpectrometry, FluorescenceReceptors, Antigen, B-CellReceptors, Antigen, T-Cell

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PMID23009849
PMCPMC3433623

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