Communications Biology (Oct 2022)

Honing-in antigen-specific cells during antibody discovery: a user-friendly process to mine a deeper repertoire

  • Ankit Mahendra,
  • Aftabul Haque,
  • Ponraj Prabakaran,
  • Brian C. Mackness,
  • Thomas P. Fuller,
  • Xiaohua Liu,
  • Sagar V. Kathuria,
  • Yui-Hsi Wang,
  • Nilesh Amatya,
  • Xiaocong Yu,
  • Joern Hopke,
  • Dietmar Hoffmann,
  • Eva Bric-Furlong,
  • Ningning Zhang,
  • Hyun-Suk Cho,
  • Ruijun Zhang,
  • Jose Sancho,
  • Jacqueline Saleh,
  • Sambasiva P. Rao,
  • Maria Wendt,
  • Partha S. Chowdhury

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-04129-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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The authors developed a methodology for bulk enrichment of antigen-specific B cells to improve the diversity of antibody sequences and increase the number of functional antigen-specific antibodies coming from different antibody generation platforms.