bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.28.054775; this version posted May 26, 2020. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY 4.0 International license. 1 Antibody repertoire and gene expression dynamics of diverse human B cell 2 states during affinity maturation. 3 Hamish W King1,2 *, Nara Orban3, John C Riches4,5, Andrew J Clear4, Gary Warnes6, Sarah A 4 Teichmann2,7, Louisa K James1 * § 5 1 Centre for Immunobiology, Blizard Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 2AT, UK 6 2 Wellcome Sanger Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK 7 3 Barts Health Ear, Nose and Throat Service, The Royal London Hospital, London E1 1BB, UK 8 4 Centre for Haemato-Oncology, Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London EC1M 6BQ, UK 9 5 The Francis Crick Institute, London NW1 1AT, UK 10 6 Flow Cytometry Core Facility, Blizard Institute, Queen Mary University of London, London E1 2AT, UK 11 7 Theory of Condensed Matter, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0EH, UK 12 § Lead contact 13 * To whom correspondence can be addressed:
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[email protected] 14 15 Abstract 16 In response to antigen challenge, B cells clonally expand, undergo selection and differentiate to produce 17 mature B cell subsets and high affinity antibodies.