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  4. TCR repertoire diversity in Multiple Sclerosis: High-dimensional bioinformatics analysis of sequences from brain, cerebrospinal fluid and peripheral blood
 
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TCR repertoire diversity in Multiple Sclerosis: High-dimensional bioinformatics analysis of sequences from brain, cerebrospinal fluid and peripheral blood
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Author(s)
Amoriello, Roberta
Chernigovskaya, Maria
Greiff, Victor
Carnasciali, Alberto
Massacesi, Luca
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Type
Journal Article
Abstract
BACKGROUND: T cells play a key role in the pathogenesis of multiple sclerosis (MS), a chronic, inflammatory, demyelinating disease of the central nervous system (CNS). Although several studies recently investigated the T-cell receptor (TCR) repertoire in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) of MS patients by high-throughput sequencing (HTS), a deep analysis on repertoire similarities and differences among compartments is still missing. METHODS: We performed comprehensive bioinformatics on high-dimensional TCR Vβ sequencing data from published and unpublished MS and healthy donors (HD) studies. We evaluated repertoire polarization, clone distribution, shared CDR3 amino acid sequences (CDR3s-a.a.) across repertoires, clone overlap with public databases, and TCR similarity architecture. FINDINGS: CSF repertoires showed a significantly higher public clones percentage and sequence similarity compared to peripheral blood (PB). On the other hand, we failed to reject the null hypothesis that the repertoire polarization is the same between CSF and PB. One Primary-Progressive MS (PPMS) CSF repertoire differed from the others in terms of TCR similarity architecture. Cluster analysis splits MS from HD. INTERPRETATION: In MS patients, the presence of a physiological barrier, the blood-brain barrier, does not impact clone prevalence and distribution, but impacts public clones, indicating CSF as a more private site. We reported a high Vβ sequence similarity in the CSF-TCR architecture in one PPMS. If confirmed it may be an interesting insight into MS progressive inflammatory mechanisms. The clustering of MS repertoires from HD suggests that disease shapes the TCR Vβ clonal profile. FUNDING: This study was partly financially supported by the Italian Multiple Sclerosis Foundation (FISM), that contributed to Ballerini-DB data collection (grant #2015 R02).
Date Issued
2021-06-11
Date Acceptance
2021-05-19
Citation
EBioMedicine, 2021, 68, pp.103429-103429
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/90749
URL
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S235239642100222X?via%3Dihub
DOI
https://www.dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ebiom.2021.103429
ISSN
2352-3964
Publisher
Elsevier
Start Page
103429
End Page
103429
Journal / Book Title
EBioMedicine
Volume
68
Copyright Statement
© 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)
License URL
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Identifier
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34127432
PII: S2352-3964(21)00222-X
Subjects
Brain
Cerebrospinal fluid
High-throughput sequencing
Multiple Sclerosis
System immunology
T-cell repertoire diversity
Publication Status
Published
Coverage Spatial
Netherlands
Date Publish Online
2021-06-11
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