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Compartment size and proliferation shape the murine T cell receptor repertoire in splenic T- and B cell zones during an immune response

ABSTRACT: The adaptive immune system recognizes billions of unique antigens using highly variable T cell receptors (TCRs). To what extent TCR features shape the spatial distribution of the TCR repertoire (TCR-R) within lymphoid organs remains unclear. Here, we compared the TCR-R composition in T cell zones (TCZ), B cell zones (BCZ), and germinal centers (GC) of the spleen by analyzing the complementarity-determining region 3 of the beta chain (CDR3β) in microdissected splenic compartments from na\"ive and immunized mice. While we found substantial differences in TCR-R composition between these compartments, these differences largely disappeared once the effects of compartment size and proliferation were accounted for: During steady state, the few T~cells found in BCZs strongly resemble random subsets of those found in TCZs. After immunization, expanded clones started appearing in the TCZ at day 3 and later shifted to the BCZ. GCs harbored even further expanded clones that were grouped into clusters with high sequence similarity. TCR-R differences during the immune response were well explained by a Galton-Watson model of T~cell proliferation, suggesting that this could be the central factor shaping the observed TCR-R differences. Similarly, while TCR length and closeness to germline appeared to differ between the compartments, our models of random distribution and proliferation explained these differences almost entirely. Hence, our findings suggest that splenic TCR-Rs are shaped predominantly by compartment size and proliferation rates rather than TCR sequence features. This would imply that quantitative assessment of TCR-R dynamics across heterogeneous spatial compartments during an immune response is only possible when these effects are explicitly accounted for.

ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus

PROVIDER: GSE293228 | GEO | 2025/04/02

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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Compartment size and proliferation shape the murine T cell receptor repertoire in splenic T- and B cell zones during an immune response

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