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High Frequency of Shared Clonotypes in Human T Cell Receptor Repertoires.

ABSTRACT: The collection of T cell receptors (TCRs) generated by somatic recombination is large but unknown. We generate large TCR repertoire datasets as a resource to facilitate detailed studies of the role of TCR clonotypes and repertoires in health and disease. We estimate the size of individual human recombined and expressed TCRs by sequence analysis and determine the extent of sharing between individual repertoires. Our experiments reveal that each blood sample contains between 5 million and 21 million TCR clonotypes. Three individuals share 8% of TCR?- or 11% of TCR?-chain clonotypes. Sorting by T cell phenotypes in four individuals shows that 5% of naive CD4+ and 3.5% of naive CD8+ subsets share their TCR? clonotypes, whereas memory CD4+ and CD8+ subsets share 2.3% and 0.4% of their clonotypes, respectively. We identify the sequences of these shared TCR clonotypes that are of interest for studies of human T cell biology.

SUBMITTER: Soto C

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7433715 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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High Frequency of Shared Clonotypes in Human T Cell Receptor Repertoires.

Soto Cinque C Bombardi Robin G RG Kozhevnikov Morgan M Sinkovits Robert S RS Chen Elaine C EC Branchizio Andre A Kose Nurgun N Day Samuel B SB Pilkinton Mark M Gujral Madhusudan M Mallal Simon S Crowe James E JE

Cell reports 20200701 2

The collection of T cell receptors (TCRs) generated by somatic recombination is large but unknown. We generate large TCR repertoire datasets as a resource to facilitate detailed studies of the role of TCR clonotypes and repertoires in health and disease. We estimate the size of individual human recombined and expressed TCRs by sequence analysis and determine the extent of sharing between individual repertoires. Our experiments reveal that each blood sample contains between 5 million and 21 milli ...[more]

PMID: 32668251

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High Frequency of Shared Clonotypes in Human T Cell Receptor Repertoires.

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