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Stochastic competitive exclusion in the maintenance of the naïve T cell repertoire
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Stirk, Emily R., Lythe, Grant, Berg, Hugo van den and Molina-Paris, Carmen (2010) Stochastic competitive exclusion in the maintenance of the naïve T cell repertoire. Journal of Theoretical Biology, Vol.265 (No.3). pp. 396-410. doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2010.05.004 ISSN 0022-5193.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2010.05.004
Abstract
Recognition of antigens by the adaptive immune system relies on a highly diverse T cell receptor repertoire. The mechanism that maintains this diversity is based on competition for survival stimuli; these stimuli depend upon weak recognition of self-antigens by the T cell antigen receptor. We study the dynamics of diversity maintenance as a stochastic competition process between a pair of T cell clonotypes that are similar in terms of the self-antigens they recognise. We formulate a bivariate continuous-time Markov process for the numbers of T cells belonging to the two clonotypes. We prove that the ultimate fate of both clonotypes is extinction and provide a bound on mean extinction times. We focus on the case where the two clonotypes exhibit negligible competition with other T cell clonotypes in the repertoire, since this case provides an upper bound on the mean extinction times. As the two clonotypes become more similar in terms of the self-antigens they recognise, one clonotype quickly becomes extinct in a process resembling classical competitive exclusion. We study the limiting probability distribution for the bivariate process, conditioned on non-extinction of both clonotypes. Finally, we derive deterministic equations for the number of cells belonging to each clonotype as well as a linear Fokker-Planck equation for the fluctuations about the deterministic stable steady state.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | Q Science > QR Microbiology | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Mathematics Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Research Centres > Warwick Systems Biology Centre |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | T cells -- Receptors -- Mathematical models | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Theoretical Biology | ||||
Publisher: | Elsevier | ||||
ISSN: | 0022-5193 | ||||
Official Date: | 7 August 2010 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.265 | ||||
Number: | No.3 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 15 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 396-410 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.jtbi.2010.05.004 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 3 December 2015 | ||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 3 December 2015 | ||||
Funder: | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (Great Britain) (BBSRC) |
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