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Unifying model for molecular determinants of the preselection Vβ repertoire

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authors

  • Gopalakrishnan, S.
  • Majumder, K.
  • Predeus, A.
  • Huang, Y.
  • Koues, O. I.
  • Verma-Gaur, J.
  • Loguercio, S.
  • Su, Andrew
  • Feeney, Ann
  • Artyomov, M. N.
  • Oltz, E. M.

publication date

  • August 2013

journal

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America  Journal

abstract

  • The primary antigen receptor repertoire is sculpted by the process of V(D)J recombination, which must strike a balance between diversification and favoring gene segments with specialized functions. The precise determinants of how often gene segments are chosen to complete variable region coding exons remain elusive. We quantified Vβ use in the preselection Tcrb repertoire and report relative contributions of 13 distinct features that may shape their recombination efficiencies, including transcription, chromatin environment, spatial proximity to their DβJβ targets, and predicted quality of recombination signal sequences (RSSs). We show that, in contrast to functional Vβ gene segments, all pseudo-Vβ segments are sequestered in transcriptionally silent chromatin, which effectively suppresses wasteful recombination. Importantly, computational analyses provide a unifying model, revealing a minimum set of five parameters that are predictive of Vβ use, dominated by chromatin modifications associated with transcription, but largely independent of precise spatial proximity to DβJβ clusters. This learned model-building strategy may be useful in predicting the relative contributions of epigenetic, spatial, and RSS features in shaping preselection V repertoires at other antigen receptor loci. Ultimately, such models may also predict how designed or naturally occurring alterations of these loci perturb the preselection use of variable gene segments.

subject areas

  • Animals
  • Chromatin
  • Chromatin Immunoprecipitation
  • Computational Biology
  • DNA Primers
  • Gene Expression Regulation
  • Genes, T-Cell Receptor beta
  • High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing
  • Immunoglobulin Variable Region
  • Luciferases
  • Mice
  • Mice, Inbred C57BL
  • Models, Immunological
  • Regression Analysis
  • V(D)J Recombination
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keywords

  • T-cell receptor
  • gene regulation
  • lymphocytes
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Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC3752219

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0027-8424

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1073/pnas.1304048110

PubMed ID

  • 23918392
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Additional Document Info

start page

  • E3206

end page

  • E3215

volume

  • 110

issue

  • 34

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