Journal: bioRxiv
Article Title: Functional Convergence of Genetically Diverse B-Cell Receptors in Simian-HIV Infected Rhesus Macaques
doi: 10.64898/2026.01.09.698730
Figure Lengend Snippet: (A) Related to Table S3. Proportions of identified autologous SOSIP- or gp140-binding B cells for which BCR sequences were determined. The blue horizontal line separates two categories: cultures with binding MFI > 300 (upper) and MFI ≤ 300 (lower). Stacked bars represent proportions normalized to the total counts of Env-binding B cells with MFI > 300, with pink indicating sequenced and grey indicating not sequenced. Numbers within bars denote the counts of Env-binding B cells in each category. (B) Related to . VH mutation frequency and neutralization differences between Bmem and IgG + GC B cells for lineages containing both IgG + GC and Bmem members at the same timepoints in individual RMs. Each dot represents a Bmem–IgG + GC B cell pair. Only RM–Bmem population groups with more than two data points are shown. (C) Related to . Relationship between rAb binding MFI values to heterologous gp140 protein and the binding MFI values of corresponding single B-cell culture supernatants to CH505.gp120 and MN.gp41 proteins in the initial screening. Functional types of source B-cell clones are color-coded, and dashed lines indicate binding cutoffs. (D) Related to Methods. UMAP plots showing the same coordinates and clusters as in , with colors indicating individual assay batches. (E-F) Related to . Normalized density plots display the distribution of distances calculated from the pairwise IGV gene distance matrix at two categorical levels: IGV gene (E) and family (F). Distances within the same category (“Within”) are shown in black, while distances between different categories (“Between”) are shown in grey. Dashed vertical lines in blue represent cutoff values, determined either at the intersection of within and between distance distributions or at the point of minimum difference when no intersection is observed. (G) Related to . Distribution of MADM of IGV allele usage frequencies across RMs, calculated from percentages smoothed within IGV families. The distribution for uCDR3 represents the combined MADM values from 1000 multinomial down-sampled simulations (see Methods). Empirical p values were calculated between the median MADM of xBCR and 1000 median values of randomly-sampled and size-matched uCDR3 subsets (see Methods). ***, empirical p < 0.001. Alleles with zero frequencies across all three RMs were excluded to prevent distortion by an excess of MADM = 0 values. (H) Related to . Cosine similarity scores of IGV allele usage between RMs. For the uCDR3 source, dots indicate medians from 1000 multinomial down-sampling simulations (see Methods), with error bars showing 25th – 75th percentiles. Lines connect the same RM pair comparisons from uCDR3 or xBCR sources, with solid lines for original percentages and dashed lines for percentages smoothed within IGV families. Line colors indicate the significance of empirical p values: grey (***) for p < 0.001, blue (**) for p < 0.01, green (*) for p < 0.05, and orange (ns) for not significant.
Article Snippet: For human IgG ELISA assays, the coating antibodies used were goat anti-human Igκ (2 μg/ml, polyclonal, Southern Biotech, Cat# 2061-01) and goat anti-human Igλ (2 μg/ml, polyclonal, Southern Biotech, Cat# 2071-01), the standard antibodies used were human IgG1 Kappa (polyclonal, Southern Biotech, Cat# 0151K-01) and human IgG1 Lambda (polyclonal, Southern Biotech, Cat# 0151L-01), and the detection antibody used was goat anti-human IgG-HRP (1/5000 dilution, polyclonal, Southern Biotech, Cat# 2040-05).
Techniques: Binding Assay, Mutagenesis, Neutralization, Cell Culture, Functional Assay, Clone Assay, Sampling