Functional antibodies exhibit light chain coherence
D. B. Jaffe, P. Shahi, B. A. Adams, A. M. Chrisman, P. M. Finnegan, N. Raman, A. E. Royall, F. Tsai, T. Vollbrecht, D. S. Reyes, W. J. McDonnell
The paper shows that functional antibodies have a high probability of using the same light chain V gene, termed light chain coherence, unlike naive antibodies.
bioRxiv · Apr 23, 2022Immunology