Computational mining of B cell receptor repertoires reveals antigen-specific and convergent responses to Ebola vaccination
Outbreaks of Ebolaviruses, such as Sudanvirus (SUDV) in Uganda in 2022, demonstrate that species other than the Zaire ebolavirus (EBOV), which is currently the sole virus represented in current licensed vaccines, remain a major threat to global health. There is a pressing need to develop effective p...
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| author | Richardson, E Bibi, S McLean, F Schimanski, L Rijal, P Ghraichy, M von Niederhäusern, V Trück, J Clutterbuck, EA O’Connor, D Luhn, K Townsend, A Peters, B Pollard, AJ Deane, CM Kelly, DF |
| author_facet | Richardson, E Bibi, S McLean, F Schimanski, L Rijal, P Ghraichy, M von Niederhäusern, V Trück, J Clutterbuck, EA O’Connor, D Luhn, K Townsend, A Peters, B Pollard, AJ Deane, CM Kelly, DF |
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| description | Outbreaks of Ebolaviruses, such as Sudanvirus (SUDV) in Uganda in 2022, demonstrate that species other than the Zaire ebolavirus (EBOV), which is currently the sole virus represented in current licensed vaccines, remain a major threat to global health. There is a pressing need to develop effective pan-species vaccines and novel monoclonal antibody-based therapeutics for Ebolavirus disease. In response to recent outbreaks, the two dose, heterologous Ad26.ZEBOV/MVA-BN-Filo vaccine regimen was developed and was tested in a large phase II clinical trial (EBL2001) as part of the EBOVAC2 consortium. Here, we perform bulk sequencing of the variable heavy chain (VH) of B cell receptors (BCR) in forty participants from the EBL2001 trial in order to characterize the BCR repertoire in response to vaccination with Ad26.ZEBOV/MVA-BN-Filo. We develop a comprehensive database, EBOV-AbDab, of publicly available Ebolavirus-specific antibody sequences. We then use our database to predict the antigen-specific component of the vaccinee repertoires. Our results show striking convergence in VH germline gene usage across participants following the MVA-BN-Filo dose, and provide further evidence of the role of IGHV3–15 and IGHV3–13 antibodies in the B cell response to Ebolavirus glycoprotein. Furthermore, we found that previously described Ebola-specific mAb sequences present in EBOV-AbDab were sufficient to describe at least one of the ten most expanded BCR clonotypes in more than two thirds of our cohort of vaccinees following the boost, providing proof of principle for the utility of computational mining of immune repertoires. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:c2e04aa2-ab5b-40c1-9562-f4f82cc59d012024-07-31T19:33:48ZComputational mining of B cell receptor repertoires reveals antigen-specific and convergent responses to Ebola vaccinationJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:c2e04aa2-ab5b-40c1-9562-f4f82cc59d01EnglishJisc Publications RouterFrontiers Media2024Richardson, EBibi, SMcLean, FSchimanski, LRijal, PGhraichy, Mvon Niederhäusern, VTrück, JClutterbuck, EAO’Connor, DLuhn, KTownsend, APeters, BPollard, AJDeane, CMKelly, DFOutbreaks of Ebolaviruses, such as Sudanvirus (SUDV) in Uganda in 2022, demonstrate that species other than the Zaire ebolavirus (EBOV), which is currently the sole virus represented in current licensed vaccines, remain a major threat to global health. There is a pressing need to develop effective pan-species vaccines and novel monoclonal antibody-based therapeutics for Ebolavirus disease. In response to recent outbreaks, the two dose, heterologous Ad26.ZEBOV/MVA-BN-Filo vaccine regimen was developed and was tested in a large phase II clinical trial (EBL2001) as part of the EBOVAC2 consortium. Here, we perform bulk sequencing of the variable heavy chain (VH) of B cell receptors (BCR) in forty participants from the EBL2001 trial in order to characterize the BCR repertoire in response to vaccination with Ad26.ZEBOV/MVA-BN-Filo. We develop a comprehensive database, EBOV-AbDab, of publicly available Ebolavirus-specific antibody sequences. We then use our database to predict the antigen-specific component of the vaccinee repertoires. Our results show striking convergence in VH germline gene usage across participants following the MVA-BN-Filo dose, and provide further evidence of the role of IGHV3–15 and IGHV3–13 antibodies in the B cell response to Ebolavirus glycoprotein. Furthermore, we found that previously described Ebola-specific mAb sequences present in EBOV-AbDab were sufficient to describe at least one of the ten most expanded BCR clonotypes in more than two thirds of our cohort of vaccinees following the boost, providing proof of principle for the utility of computational mining of immune repertoires. |
| spellingShingle | Richardson, E Bibi, S McLean, F Schimanski, L Rijal, P Ghraichy, M von Niederhäusern, V Trück, J Clutterbuck, EA O’Connor, D Luhn, K Townsend, A Peters, B Pollard, AJ Deane, CM Kelly, DF Computational mining of B cell receptor repertoires reveals antigen-specific and convergent responses to Ebola vaccination |
| title | Computational mining of B cell receptor repertoires reveals antigen-specific and convergent responses to Ebola vaccination |
| title_full | Computational mining of B cell receptor repertoires reveals antigen-specific and convergent responses to Ebola vaccination |
| title_fullStr | Computational mining of B cell receptor repertoires reveals antigen-specific and convergent responses to Ebola vaccination |
| title_full_unstemmed | Computational mining of B cell receptor repertoires reveals antigen-specific and convergent responses to Ebola vaccination |
| title_short | Computational mining of B cell receptor repertoires reveals antigen-specific and convergent responses to Ebola vaccination |
| title_sort | computational mining of b cell receptor repertoires reveals antigen specific and convergent responses to ebola vaccination |
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