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波动的适应度塑造了免疫库的克隆大小分布

Fluctuating fitness shapes the clone size distribution of immune repertoires

Jonathan Desponds, Thierry Mora, Aleksandra M. Walczak

摘要:

适应性免疫系统依赖于B细胞和T细胞表面表达的受体的多样性,以保护生物体免受大量病原体的威胁。不同细胞类型(B细胞、T细胞、幼稚细胞、记忆细胞)的增殖和降解动力学受各种抗原和环境信号的支配,但观察到的克隆大小遵循普遍的幂律分布。在这种可重复性的指导下,我们提出了体细胞进化的有效模型,其中细胞命运取决于有效的适应性。这种适应性是由生长因子决定的,这些生长因子作用于具有相同受体的细胞克隆,这些细胞对特定抗原产生反应,或者直接作用于单个细胞而不考虑克隆。我们确定的波动,特别是在克隆的基本成分,导致所观察到的分布的健身。将我们的模型与实验相结合,我们描述了抗原环境中波动的规模,并提供了识别不同组织和生物体中相关生长信号的工具。我们的研究结果推广到任何不断变化的人口在一个波动的环境。

英文摘要:

The adaptive immune system relies on the diversity of receptors expressed on the surface of B and T-cells to protect the organism from a vast amount of pathogenic threats. The proliferation and degradation dynamics of different cell types (B cells, T cells, naive, memory) is governed by a variety of antigenic and environmental signals, yet the observed clone sizes follow a universal power law distribution. Guided by this reproducibility we propose effective models of somatic evolution where cell fate depends on an effective fitness. This fitness is determined by growth factors acting either on clones of cells with the same receptor responding to specific antigens, or directly on single cells with no regards for clones. We identify fluctuations in the fitness acting specifically on clones as the essential ingredient leading to the observed distributions. Combining our models with experiments we characterize the scale of fluctuations in antigenic environments and we provide tools to identify the relevant growth signals in different tissues and organisms. Our results generalize to any evolving population in a fluctuating environment.

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