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ImmunityMay 2022 DOI:
10.1016/j.immuni.2022.05.002

Phage display of environmental protein toxins and virulence factors reveals the prevalence, persistence, and genetics of antibody responses

Angkeow, Julia W; Monaco, Daniel R; Chen, Athena; Venkataraman, Thiagarajan; Jayaraman, Sahana; Valencia, Cristian; Sie, Brandon M; Liechti, Thomas; Farhadi, Payam N; Funez-dePagnier, Gabriela; Sherman-Baust, Cheryl A; Wong, May Q; Ruczinski, Ingo; Caturegli, Patrizio; Sears, Cynthia L; Simner, Patricia J; Round, June L; Duggal, Priya; Laserson, Uri; Steiner, Theodore S; Sen, Ranjan; Lloyd, Thomas E; Roederer, Mario; Mammen, Andrew L; Longman, Randy S; Rider, Lisa G; Larman, H Benjamin
Product Used
NGS
Abstract
Microbial exposures are crucial environmental factors that impact healthspan by sculpting the immune system and microbiota. Antibody profiling via Phage ImmunoPrecipitation Sequencing (PhIP-Seq) provides a high-throughput, cost-effective approach for detecting exposure and response to microbial protein products. We designed and constructed a library of 95,601 56-amino acid peptide tiles spanning 14,430 proteins with "toxin" or "virulence factor" keyword annotations. We used PhIP-Seq to profile the antibodies of ∼1,000 individuals against this "ToxScan" library. In addition to enumerating immunodominant antibody epitopes, we studied the age-dependent stability of the ToxScan profile and used a genome-wide association study to find that the MHC-II locus modulates bacterial epitope selection. We detected previously described anti-flagellin antibody responses in a Crohn's disease cohort and identified an association between anti-flagellin antibodies and juvenile dermatomyositis. PhIP-Seq with the ToxScan library is thus an effective tool for studying the environmental determinants of health and disease at cohort scale.
Product Used
NGS

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