Human Anti-Glycan Reactivity is Driven by the Selection of B cells Utilizing Private Antibody Gene Rearrangements that are Affinity Maturated in Germinal Centers
New, J. S.; Fucile, C. F.; Callahan, A. R.; Burke, J. N.; Davis, R. S.; Duck, W. L.; Rosenberg, A. F.; Kearney, J. F.; King, R. G.
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The human antibody repertoire is broadly reactive with carbohydrate antigens represented in the universe of all living things, including both the host/self-as well as the commensal microflora-derived glycomes. Here we have used BCR receptor cloning and expression together with single-cell transcriptomics to analyze the B cell repertoire to the ubiquitous N-acetyl-D-glucosamine (GlcNAc) epitope in human cohorts and dissect the immune phylogeny of this predominant class of antibodies. We find that circulating anti-GlcNAc B cells exhibiting canonical BMem phenotypes emerge rapidly after birth and couple this observation with evidence for germinal center-dependent affinity maturation of carbohydrate-specific B cell receptors in situ during early childhood. Direct analysis of individual B cell clonotypes reveals they exhibit strikingly distinct fine-specificity profiles for palettes of GlcNAc containing moieties. These results suggest that a generalized exposure to complex environmental glycans drives the steady state anti-glycan repertoire.
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