2022
Reemergence of pathogenic, autoantibody-producing B cell clones in myasthenia gravis following B cell depletion therapy
Fichtner ML, Hoehn KB, Ford EE, Mane-Damas M, Oh S, Waters P, Payne AS, Smith ML, Watson CT, Losen M, Martinez-Martinez P, Nowak RJ, Kleinstein SH, O’Connor K. Reemergence of pathogenic, autoantibody-producing B cell clones in myasthenia gravis following B cell depletion therapy. Acta Neuropathologica Communications 2022, 10: 154. PMID: 36307868, PMCID: PMC9617453, DOI: 10.1186/s40478-022-01454-0.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsB cell depletion therapyB cell clonesMuSK-MG patientsMyasthenia gravisB cellsMG patientsDepletion therapyCell clonesAutoantibody-producing B cellsMuscle-specific tyrosine kinaseComplete stable remissionB cell receptor repertoireCell receptor repertoireValuable candidate biomarkersB cell receptorMG relapseClinical relapseStable remissionDisease relapseAutoimmune disordersRelapsePatientsAcetylcholine receptorsCandidate biomarkersReceptor repertoire
2021
Elevated N-Linked Glycosylation of IgG V Regions in Myasthenia Gravis Disease Subtypes.
Mandel-Brehm C, Fichtner ML, Jiang R, Winton VJ, Vazquez SE, Pham MC, Hoehn KB, Kelleher NL, Nowak RJ, Kleinstein SH, Wilson MR, DeRisi JL, O'Connor KC. Elevated N-Linked Glycosylation of IgG V Regions in Myasthenia Gravis Disease Subtypes. The Journal Of Immunology 2021, 207: 2005-2014. PMID: 34544801, PMCID: PMC8492536, DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.2100225.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMyasthenia gravisB-cell-mediated autoimmune diseasesBCR repertoireCell-mediated autoimmune diseaseTotal BCR repertoireTotal circulating IgGSubset of patientsB cell repertoireElevated NGene segment usageMG subtypesAutoimmune disordersAutoimmune diseasesHealthy donorsCell repertoireDisease subtypesDistinct subtypesReceptor repertoireAdaptive immune receptor repertoiresV regionsAutoantigen bindingPatientsSegment usageSubtypesImmune receptor repertoires
2018
The CAIRR Pipeline for Submitting Standards-Compliant B and T Cell Receptor Repertoire Sequencing Studies to the National Center for Biotechnology Information Repositories
Bukhari SAC, O’Connor M, Martínez-Romero M, Egyedi AL, Willrett D, Graybeal J, Musen MA, Rubelt F, Cheung KH, Kleinstein SH. The CAIRR Pipeline for Submitting Standards-Compliant B and T Cell Receptor Repertoire Sequencing Studies to the National Center for Biotechnology Information Repositories. Frontiers In Immunology 2018, 9: 1877. PMID: 30166985, PMCID: PMC6105692, DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2018.01877.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMetadata qualityInformation repositoryAdaptive immune receptor repertoiresLarge-scale dataWeb–based templateSoftware frameworkData annotationData standardsEffective sharingAIRR-seq dataReceptor repertoireData submittersCell receptorSequence filesAdaptive immune responsesRepositoryImmune receptor repertoiresMetadataData setsT cell receptorArchive databaseB cell receptor
2016
Individual heritable differences result in unique cell lymphocyte receptor repertoires of naïve and antigen-experienced cells
Rubelt F, Bolen CR, McGuire HM, Heiden J, Gadala-Maria D, Levin M, M. Euskirchen G, Mamedov MR, Swan GE, Dekker CL, Cowell LG, Kleinstein SH, Davis MM. Individual heritable differences result in unique cell lymphocyte receptor repertoires of naïve and antigen-experienced cells. Nature Communications 2016, 7: 11112. PMID: 27005435, PMCID: PMC5191574, DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11112.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsChromosome-wide levelJ gene segmentsAntigen receptor repertoireHeritable mechanismsSingle chromosomeEpigenetic differencesHeritable differencesReceptor repertoireLymphocyte receptor repertoireGene segmentsAdaptive immune systemHeritable factorsRepertoireRelative usageAntigen-experienced cellsThymic selectionCellsImmune systemChromosomesSignificant variationCDR3 regionMonozygotic twinsRearrangementT lymphocyte subsets