Models for antigen receptor gene rearrangement. I. Biased receptor editing in B cells: implications for allelic exclusion.

B Cells: Implications for Allelic Exclusion in Rearrangement. I. Biased Receptor Editing Models for Antigen Receptor Gene

Models for antigen receptor gene rearrangement. II. Multiple rearrangement in the TCR: allelic exclusion or inclusion?

This series of papers addresses the effects of continuous Ag receptor gene rearrangement in lymphocytes on allelic exclusion. The previous paper discussed light chain gene rearrangement and receptor editing in B cells, and showed that these processes are ordered on three different levels. This order, combined with the constraints imposed by a strong negative selection, was shown to lead to effe...

B cell receptor editing in tolerance and autoimmunity.

Receptor editing is the process of ongoing antibody gene rearrangement in a lymphocyte that already has a functional antigen receptor. The expression of a functional antigen receptor will normally terminate further rearrangement (allelic exclusion). However, lymphocytes with autoreactive receptors have a chance at escaping negative regulation by "editing" the specificities of their receptors wi...

Advancing Chimeric Antigen Receptor-Engineered T-Cell Immunotherapy Using Genome Editing Technologies: Challenges and Future Prospects

Chimeric antigen receptor engineered-T (CAR-T) cells also named as living drugs, have been recently known as a breakthrough technology and were applied as an adoptive immunotherapy against different types of cancer. They also attracted widespread interest because of the success of B-cell malignancy therapy achieved by anti-CD19 CAR-T cells. Current genetic toolbox enabled the synthesis of CARs ...

Models for antigen receptor gene rearrangement. III. Heavy and light chain allelic exclusion.

The extent of allelic exclusion in Ig genes is very high, although not absolute. Thus far, it has not been clearly established whether rapid selection of the developing B cell as soon as it has achieved the first productively rearranged, functional heavy chain is the only mechanism responsible for allelic exclusion. Our computational models of Ag receptor gene rearrangement in B lymphocytes are...