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ArticleFundamental research2026

Profiling adaptive immunity: A quantitative framework for immune repertoire dynamics and clinical diagnostics.

Yexing Chen, Haiwen Ni, Yongjie Li, Jin Ma, Chen Huang, Sixian Yang, Xiangfei Xie, Haitao Lv, Min Li, Peng Cao

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Yexing ChenState Key Laboratory of Technologies for Chinese Medicine Pharmaceutical Process Control and Intelligent Manufacture, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing 210000, China.
Haiwen NiDepartment of Hematology, Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, The First Clinical College of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing 210000, China.
Yongjie LiState Key Laboratory of Technologies for Chinese Medicine Pharmaceutical Process Control and Intelligent Manufacture, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing 210000, China.
Jin MaState Key Laboratory of Technologies for Chinese Medicine Pharmaceutical Process Control and Intelligent Manufacture, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing 210000, China.
Chen HuangDepartment of Hematology, Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, The First Clinical College of Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing 210000, China.
Sixian YangKey Laboratory of Quantum Information, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230000, China.
Xiangfei XieDepartment of Computer Science, College of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati 45221, USA.
Haitao LvChildren's Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou 215000, China.
Min LiDepartment of Oncology, Nanjing Hospital of Chinese Medicine Affiliated to Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing 210000, China.
Peng CaoState Key Laboratory of Technologies for Chinese Medicine Pharmaceutical Process Control and Intelligent Manufacture, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing 210000, China.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

While immune repertoire (IR) dynamics encode critical disease signatures, existing models fail to capture the non-equilibrium processes that govern clonal selection and somatic hypermutation (SHM). We develop a biophysical framework that mathematically reconstructs IR evolution through energy landscape optimization, where 1) clonal emergence probabilities map to metastable states, 2) repertoire transitions obey non-equilibrium dynamics, and 3) inter-IR distances quantify the distribution transformation costs via optimal transport theory. This model enables macroscopic immune state detection from 10k cells by resolving critical fluctuations in sparse sampling regimes. Experimental validation across murine/human cohorts demonstrates precise unsupervised stratification of immune stages and disease states without prior clinical annotations. By bridging stochastic SHM kinetics with deterministic repertoire shifts, our approach establishes quantitative metrics for tracking immunological trajectories and pathological progression. This paradigm shift from static pattern recognition to dynamic process decoding empowers sensitive immunomonitoring and personalized therapeutic design through ultra-low-input clinical sampling.

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Colorectal cancerDeductive reasoningEarly disease screeningImmune repertoire analysisKawasaki diseaseRepertoire shift quantificationSystemic immunity inference

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