Sequence Space Localization in the Immune System Response to Vaccination and Disease

Details Sequence Space Localization in the Immune System Response to Vaccination and Disease Sequence Space Localization in the Immune System Response to Vaccination and Disease

2003-08-29

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0308613v1

Phys. Rev. Lett. 91 (2003) 068101

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

5 pages, 2 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.068101

We introduce a model of protein evolution to explain limitations in the immune system response to vaccination and disease. The phenomenon of original antigenic sin, wherein vaccination creates memory sequences that can \emph{increase} susceptibility to future exposures to the same disease, is explained as stemming from localization of the immune system response in antibody sequence space. This localization is a result of the roughness in sequence space of the evolved antibody affinity constant for antigen and is observed for diseases with high year-to-year mutation rates, such as influenza.

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