使用非功能克隆型作为适应性免疫受体库分析中定量偏倚校正的自然校准物。
The use of non-functional clonotypes as a natural calibrator for quantitative bias correction in adaptive immune receptor repertoire profiling.
机构信息
Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russian Federation.
Department of Genomics of Adaptive Immunity, Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Moscow, Russian Federation.
出版信息
Elife. 2023 Jan 24;12:e69157. doi: 10.7554/eLife.69157.
High-throughput sequencing of adaptive immune receptor repertoires is a valuable tool for receiving insights in adaptive immunity studies. Several powerful TCR/BCR repertoire reconstruction and analysis methods have been developed in the past decade. However, detecting and correcting the discrepancy between real and experimentally observed lymphocyte clone frequencies are still challenging. Here, we discovered a hallmark anomaly in the ratio between read count and clone count-based frequencies of non-functional clonotypes in multiplex PCR-based immune repertoires. Calculating this anomaly, we formulated a quantitative measure of V- and J-genes frequency bias driven by multiplex PCR during library preparation called Over Amplification Rate (OAR). Based on the OAR concept, we developed an original software for multiplex PCR-specific bias evaluation and correction named iROAR: immune Repertoire Over Amplification Removal (https://github.com/smiranast/iROAR). The iROAR algorithm was successfully tested on previously published TCR repertoires obtained using both 5' RACE (Rapid Amplification of cDNA Ends)-based and multiplex PCR-based approaches and compared with a biological spike-in-based method for PCR bias evaluation. The developed approach can increase the accuracy and consistency of repertoires reconstructed by different methods making them more applicable for comparative analysis.
高通量测序的适应性免疫受体库是一个有价值的工具,用于接收见解在适应性免疫研究。几个强大的 T 细胞受体/ B 细胞受体库重建和分析方法已经开发了在过去的十年中。然而,检测和纠正之间的差异实际和实验观察到的淋巴细胞克隆频率仍然具有挑战性。在这里,我们发现了一个标志异常在读取计数之间的比例和克隆计数为基础的频率非功能的克隆型在多重 PCR 为基础的免疫库。计算这个异常,我们制定了一个定量的措施 V-和 J-基因频率偏倚由多重 PCR 驱动在库准备所谓的过度放大率(OAR)。基于 OAR 的概念,我们开发了一个原始软件为多重 PCR 特异性偏差评估和校正名为 iROAR:免疫库过度放大去除(https://github.com/smiranast/iROAR)。iROAR 算法成功地测试了之前发表的 TCR 库获得使用 5' RACE (快速扩增 cDNA 末端)为基础和多重 PCR 为基础的方法和比较与生物 Spike-in 为基础的方法为 PCR 偏差评估。开发的方法可以提高准确性和一致性的库重建不同的方法使它们更适用于比较分析。