Alhassan Ahmed M, Shirure Venktesh S, Luo Jean, Nguyen Bryan B, Rollins Zachary A, Shergill Bhupinder S, Zhu Xiangdong, Baumgarth Nicole, George Steven C
Department of Biomedical Engineering University of California Davis CA 95616 USA.
Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology University of California Davis CA 95616 USA.
Adv Nanobiomed Res. 2024 Jun;4(6):2300101. doi: 10.1002/anbr.202300101. Epub 2024 Apr 26.
Assessing B cell affinity to pathogen-specific antigens prior to or following exposure could facilitate the assessment of immune status. Current standard tools to assess antigen-specific B cell responses focus on equilibrium binding of the secreted antibody in serum. These methods are costly, time-consuming, and assess antibody affinity under zero force. Recent findings indicate that force may influence BCR-antigen binding interactions and thus immune status. Herein, a simple laminar flow microfluidic chamber in which the antigen (hemagglutinin of influenza A) is bound to the chamber surface to assess antigen-specific BCR binding affinity of five hemagglutinin-specific hybridomas from 65 to 650 pN force range is designed. The results demonstrate that both increasing shear force and bound lifetime can be used to enrich antigen-specific high-affinity B cells. The affinity of the membrane-bound BCR in the flow chamber correlates well with the affinity of the matched antibodies measured in solution. These findings demonstrate that a microfluidic strategy can rapidly assess BCR-antigen-binding properties and identify antigen-specific high-affinity B cells. This strategy has the potential to both assess functional immune status from peripheral B cells and be a cost-effective way of identifying individual B cells as antibody sources for a range of clinical applications.
在接触病原体之前或之后评估B细胞对病原体特异性抗原的亲和力,有助于评估免疫状态。当前评估抗原特异性B细胞反应的标准工具主要关注血清中分泌抗体的平衡结合。这些方法成本高、耗时,且是在零力条件下评估抗体亲和力。最近的研究结果表明,力可能会影响BCR-抗原结合相互作用,进而影响免疫状态。在此,设计了一种简单的层流微流控腔室,将抗原(甲型流感病毒血凝素)结合到腔室表面,以在65至650 pN的力范围内评估来自5种血凝素特异性杂交瘤的抗原特异性BCR结合亲和力。结果表明,增加剪切力和结合寿命均可用于富集抗原特异性高亲和力B细胞。流动腔室中膜结合BCR的亲和力与溶液中测得的匹配抗体的亲和力密切相关。这些发现表明,微流控策略可以快速评估BCR-抗原结合特性,并识别抗原特异性高亲和力B细胞。该策略既有潜力从外周B细胞评估功能性免疫状态,又有可能成为一种经济有效的方法,用于识别个体B细胞作为一系列临床应用的抗体来源。
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