Cell | 上海市免疫學研究所葉菱秀團隊與中科院分子細胞科學卓越創(chuàng)新中心孟飛龍團隊合作揭示DNA柔性對抗體基因超突變譜式的塑造 發(fā)布日期:2023-04-25
2023年4月24日,上海市免疫學研究所葉菱秀團隊與中科院分子細胞卓越中心孟飛龍團隊在Cell期刊在線發(fā)表了題為“Mesoscale DNA Feature in Antibody-Coding Sequence Facilitates Somatic Hypermutation”的研究論文,。該論文從生化,、細胞和小鼠模型三個水平全面揭示了抗體基因互補決定區(qū)(CDR)編碼區(qū)偏好突變的分子基礎,,特別是抗體基因編碼序列DNA柔性的重要生理作用,,為下一代抗體基因人源化動物模型的設計奠定了理論基礎,。
抗體可變區(qū)結構域由結合抗原的互補決定區(qū)(CDR)和維持免疫球蛋白結構的框架區(qū)(FR)組成,。在體細胞高頻突變過程中,胞苷脫氨酶AID偏好作用于WRC(W=A/T, R=A/G)基序,,引入突變,。其中,回文序列AGCT是AID最青睞的底物,。然而,,同樣的AGCT卻有不同的命運,往往表現(xiàn)出在CDR區(qū)域的高突變頻率和在FR中的低突變頻率,。突變?yōu)槭裁淳哂衅眯宰钤缬?982年由著名免疫學家David Baltimore與Klaus Rajewsky等提出,,然而,近40多年來,,造成“橘生淮南則為橘,,生于淮北則為枳”這一現(xiàn)象的根本原因一直都沒有令人非常信服的答案。
圖1 CDR偏好突變在多個物種中高度保守
最后,,研究人員在小鼠體內(nèi)將一段柔性DNA序列插入低頻突變區(qū)FR3,,發(fā)現(xiàn)柔性序列極大地提高了FR3的突變頻率,將FR3區(qū)逆轉(zhuǎn)為類CDR區(qū)(圖4),。
圖4 柔性序列將FR區(qū)逆轉(zhuǎn)為類CDR區(qū)
Study in Cell reveals the DNA flexibility feature in antibody gene sequence promotes somatic hypermutation
Researchers from the laboratory of Leng-Siew Yeap at the Shanghai Institute of Immunology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine and Fei-Long Meng at the Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences have reported the results of their groundbreaking study to elucidate the mechanisms that promote somatic hypermutation at the antigen-binding sites of antibody genes. These findings resolve a long-standing question that has puzzled antibody researchers for more than 40 years and provide new insights into the development of the next-generation humanized antibody animal models.
One of the long-standing questions puzzling antibody researchers is why somatic hypermutations are concentrated in the three short, non-consecutive complementarity determining regions (CDRs) in the antibody gene sequence. First documented by the labs of David Baltimore, Klaus Rajewsky, and Leroy Hood in two Cell papers in the early 1980s, CDR hypermutation is well accepted and taken for granted by immunologists as an axiom in textbooks, although the mechanism is unknown. The study, published online on April 24, 2023 in Cell, reports that the flexible single-stranded DNA feature is the key to CDR-hypermutation. Using a cutting-edge, high-throughput biochemical assay that can test many DNA substrates for their deamination/mutation ability, the researchers found that the CDR hypermutation is evolutionarily conserved in species that use somatic hypermutation to diversify their antibody repertoire (Figure 1). Using the powerful passenger antibody gene allele mouse model system, which allows the detection of unselected mutational events, and the CRISPR/Cas9 system, which allows rapid generation of mice with DNA sequence alterations, the researchers found that the CDR hypermutability depends on the DNA sequence context at the mesoscale level (5-50 bp) (Figure 2). Using a combination of molecular dynamics simulations and single-molecule biochemistry, the researchers demonstrated that the targeting preference of the DNA mutator enzyme, activation induced cytidine deaminase (AID), is directly regulated by the flexibility of the single-stranded DNA substrate (Figure 3). Analysis of the antibody gene sequence showed that DNA sequences encoding the CDRs have evolved highly flexible properties to facilitate hypermutation, revealing a non-coding role of these sequences, and explaining the hypermutation pattern in lymphoma. Finally, regions that are normally “cold” for hypermutation can be made “hot” by engineering flexible DNA sequences in the “cold” regions (Figure 4), opening the door to the next generation of humanized animal models for antibody discovery.
The first author of this paper is Yanyan Wang, a research assistant who initiated this project and made the initial discoveries in mouse models in the Yeap lab, and continued to work on this exciting project as a Ph.D. student in the Meng lab. We would like to thank all of our wonderful collaborators on this study, Dr. Frederick Alt at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Qiang Pan-Hammarström at Karolinska Institute, Dr Lin-Tai Da at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Dr. Xiaoqi Zheng at Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Dr. Yaofeng Zhao at China Agricultural University, Dr. Jie Song at Hangzhou Institute of Medicine, Dr. Shaohui Huang at University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dr. Zhiwei Cao at Fudan University and Dr Jiaquan Liu at Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology. This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China, National Key R&D Program of China, and etc. The authors also acknowledge the support of the Center of Immune-Related Diseases at Shanghai Institute of Immunology and Core Facilities at the Shanghai Institute of Immunology and the School of Basic Medical Science.
The Yeap lab welcomes enthusiastic students and postdoctoral fellows to join the group. Interested individuals can contact Dr Yeap at [email protected]
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Yanyan Wang’s poster presentation at SII-CIML symposia, 2018.
First from left: Dr Leng-Siew Yeap, second from right: Yanyan Wang.
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