Identification of Mouse and Human Antibody Repertoires by Next-Generation SequencingLin Sun 1, Naoko Kono 2, Hiroyuki Toh 3, Hanbing Xue 1, Kaori Sano 4,5, Tadaki Suzuki 4, Akira Ainai 4, Yasuko Orba 6, Junya Yamagishi 7,8, Hideki Hasegawa 4,5, Yoshimasa Takahashi 9, Shigeyuki Itamura 2, Kazuo Ohnishi 9,10
1Graduate School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, 2Center for Influenza Virus Research, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, 3School of Science and Technology, Kwansei Gakuin University, 4Department of Pathology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, 5Division of Infectious Diseases Pathology, Department of Global Infectious Diseases, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 6Division of Molecular Pathobiology, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, 7Division of Collaboration and Education, Research Center for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, 8Global Station for Zoonosis Control, GI-CoRE, Hokkaido University, 9Department of Immunology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, 10Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba
Here, we describe protocols for the analysis and visualization of the structure and constitution of whole antibody repertoires. This involves the acquisition of vast sequences of antibody RNA using next-generation sequencing.