B cells, plasma cells and antibody repertoires in the tumour microenvironment

…, DV Yuzhakova, OV Britanova… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Recent data show that B cells and plasma cells located in tumours or in tumour-draining
lymph nodes can have important roles in shaping antitumour immune responses. In tumour-…

A genetically encoded photosensitizer

ME Bulina, DM Chudakov, OV Britanova… - Nature …, 2006 - nature.com
Photosensitizers are chromophores that generate reactive oxygen species (ROS) upon light
irradiation 1 . They are used for inactivation of specific proteins by chromophore-assisted …

[HTML][HTML] VDJtools: unifying post-analysis of T cell receptor repertoires

…, DA Bolotin, OV Britanova… - PLoS computational …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Despite the growing number of immune repertoire sequencing studies, the field still lacks
software for analysis and comprehension of this high-dimensional data. Here we report …

Age-related decrease in TCR repertoire diversity measured with deep and normalized sequence profiling

OV Britanova, EV Putintseva, M Shugay… - The Journal of …, 2014 - journals.aai.org
The decrease of TCR diversity with aging has never been studied by direct methods. In this
study, we combined high-throughput Illumina sequencing with unique cDNA molecular …

Towards error-free profiling of immune repertoires

M Shugay, OV Britanova, EM Merzlyak… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Deep profiling of antibody and T cell–receptor repertoires by means of high-throughput
sequencing has become an attractive approach for adaptive immunity studies, but its power is …

Comparative analysis of murine T‐cell receptor repertoires

…, DM Chudakov, AY Rudensky, OV Britanova - …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
For understanding the rules and laws of adaptive immunity, high‐throughput profiling of T‐cell
receptor ( TCR ) repertoires becomes a powerful tool. The structure of TCR repertoires is …

Near-infrared fluorescent proteins

…, L Strukova, KM Shidlovskiy, OV Britanova… - Nature …, 2010 - nature.com
Fluorescent proteins with emission wavelengths in the near-infrared and infrared range are
in high demand for whole-body imaging techniques. Here we report near-infrared dimeric …

Chromophore-assisted light inactivation (CALI) using the phototoxic fluorescent protein KillerRed

ME Bulina, KA Lukyanov, OV Britanova… - Nature protocols, 2006 - nature.com
The phototoxic red fluorescent GFP-like protein KillerRed has recently been described. The
phototoxicity of KillerRed exceeds that of EGFP by at least 1,000-fold, making it the first fully …

[HTML][HTML] Preparing unbiased T-cell receptor and antibody cDNA libraries for the deep next generation sequencing profiling

IZ Mamedov, OV Britanova, IV Zvyagin… - Frontiers in …, 2013 - frontiersin.org
High-throughput sequencing has the power to reveal the nature of adaptive immunity as
represented by the full complexity of T-cell receptor (TCR) and antibody (IG) repertoires, but is at …

Next generation sequencing for TCR repertoire profiling: platform‐specific features and correction algorithms

DA Bolotin, IZ Mamedov, OV Britanova… - European journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The TCR repertoire is a mirror of the human immune system that reflects processes caused
by infections, cancer, autoimmunity, and aging. Next generation sequencing (NGS) is …