Val of SMARTA following Lm-gp61 or LCMV infection is determined within the first five days of infection [14], suggesting that the role of Bim in promoting survival is not due to extended 10781694 exposure to antigen or inflammation in the later stages of the response. Rather, we propose that qualitative differences in the nature of the activation signal in the early stages of the response are key. Because of the monoclonal nature of Bim-mediated elimination of SMARTA cells, our current hypothesis tests whether TCR signals play a key role in modulating Bim activity. However, this cannot fully explain the differences we see for theBim Shapes the Functional CD4+ Memory Poolrole of Bim between infections. One possibility is that differences in cytokines and/or activation environment may influence the impact of Bim during the CD4+ T cells response. The extent of inflammatory JWH-133 supplier signaling is a key modulator of CD8+ memory T cells potential [39], and cytokines such as IL-2 or IL-21 may play a role in CD4+ T cell subset specification and subsequent memory development [40,41]. A second intriguing possibility is that Bim differentially regulates the survival of different T helper subsets, such as Th1 (almost exclusively present during Lm-gp61 infection) and Tfh (the dominant effector subset following vaccinia virus infection). Regardless, it is clear that while Bim may respond to TCR signals, TCR-independent signals also likely influence its activity. Title Loaded From File Therefore, we find it unlikely that Bim functions solely toeliminate poorly functional responders. Instead, we propose that Bim plays a broad role in shaping the characteristics of emerging CD4+ memory T cells.AcknowledgmentsWe thank J. Cassiano for technical assistance and animal husbandry.Author ContributionsConceived and designed the experiments: DCJ DMM MAW. Performed the experiments: DMM DCJ. Analyzed the data: DMM DCJ MAW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DCJ MAW. Wrote the paper: DCJ MAW.
The repertoires of serum antibody specificities contain information on the state of health and disease of individual. For example, circulating serum autoantibodies against self-antigens can serve as indicators of autoimmune diseases or of immune response against malignancies [1]. The information contained in the individuals’ sera can be investigated using methods for global analysis of serum antibody repertoires. Random peptide phage display libraries (RPPDL) are widely used for mapping epitopes on defined antigens. [2]. Epitopes recognized by monoclonal as well as by polyclonal antibodies can be identified by the biopanning procedure, an affinity selection for binding to antibodies of phage displayed peptides, followed by sequencing of individual phage DNA [3], [4]. Since the length of a consensus sequence that mimics the core epitope recognized by antibody is frequently in the range from 4 to 6 amino acids [5,6], and since all possible 6-mer amino acid permutations can be represented by 6.46107 sequences, this implies that all possible linear core epitopes of the human proteome can be represented by the commercially available library of random heptapeptides of thecomplexity of approximately 109 different sequences. The necessity to sequence individual phage clones until recently limited the application of the RPPDL to identifying epitopes on a defined antigen. With the advance of next generation sequencing (NGS), the phage displayed peptides affinity selected for binding to serum antibodies can be used fo.Val of SMARTA following Lm-gp61 or LCMV infection is determined within the first five days of infection [14], suggesting that the role of Bim in promoting survival is not due to extended 10781694 exposure to antigen or inflammation in the later stages of the response. Rather, we propose that qualitative differences in the nature of the activation signal in the early stages of the response are key. Because of the monoclonal nature of Bim-mediated elimination of SMARTA cells, our current hypothesis tests whether TCR signals play a key role in modulating Bim activity. However, this cannot fully explain the differences we see for theBim Shapes the Functional CD4+ Memory Poolrole of Bim between infections. One possibility is that differences in cytokines and/or activation environment may influence the impact of Bim during the CD4+ T cells response. The extent of inflammatory signaling is a key modulator of CD8+ memory T cells potential [39], and cytokines such as IL-2 or IL-21 may play a role in CD4+ T cell subset specification and subsequent memory development [40,41]. A second intriguing possibility is that Bim differentially regulates the survival of different T helper subsets, such as Th1 (almost exclusively present during Lm-gp61 infection) and Tfh (the dominant effector subset following vaccinia virus infection). Regardless, it is clear that while Bim may respond to TCR signals, TCR-independent signals also likely influence its activity. Therefore, we find it unlikely that Bim functions solely toeliminate poorly functional responders. Instead, we propose that Bim plays a broad role in shaping the characteristics of emerging CD4+ memory T cells.AcknowledgmentsWe thank J. Cassiano for technical assistance and animal husbandry.Author ContributionsConceived and designed the experiments: DCJ DMM MAW. Performed the experiments: DMM DCJ. Analyzed the data: DMM DCJ MAW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: DCJ MAW. Wrote the paper: DCJ MAW.
The repertoires of serum antibody specificities contain information on the state of health and disease of individual. For example, circulating serum autoantibodies against self-antigens can serve as indicators of autoimmune diseases or of immune response against malignancies [1]. The information contained in the individuals’ sera can be investigated using methods for global analysis of serum antibody repertoires. Random peptide phage display libraries (RPPDL) are widely used for mapping epitopes on defined antigens. [2]. Epitopes recognized by monoclonal as well as by polyclonal antibodies can be identified by the biopanning procedure, an affinity selection for binding to antibodies of phage displayed peptides, followed by sequencing of individual phage DNA [3], [4]. Since the length of a consensus sequence that mimics the core epitope recognized by antibody is frequently in the range from 4 to 6 amino acids [5,6], and since all possible 6-mer amino acid permutations can be represented by 6.46107 sequences, this implies that all possible linear core epitopes of the human proteome can be represented by the commercially available library of random heptapeptides of thecomplexity of approximately 109 different sequences. The necessity to sequence individual phage clones until recently limited the application of the RPPDL to identifying epitopes on a defined antigen. With the advance of next generation sequencing (NGS), the phage displayed peptides affinity selected for binding to serum antibodies can be used fo.