Biology – Quantitative Biology – Populations and Evolution
Scientific paper
2012-04-26
Phys. Biol. 8 (2011) 055006
Biology
Quantitative Biology
Populations and Evolution
29 pages, 10 figures, 1 table
Scientific paper
The zebrafish (\emph{Danio rerio}) is one of the model animals for study of immunology because the dynamics in the adaptive immune system of zebrafish are similar to that in higher animals. In this work, we built a multi-scale model to simulate the dynamics of B cells in the primary and secondary immune responses of zebrafish. We use this model to explain the reported correlation between VDJ usage of B cell repertoires in individual zebrafish. We use a delay ordinary differential equation (ODE) system to model the immune responses in the 6-month lifespan of a zebrafish. This mean field theory gives the number of high affinity B cells as a function of time during an infection. The sequences of those B cells are then taken from a distribution calculated by a "microscopic" random energy model. This generalized $NK$ model shows that mature B cells specific to one antigen largely possess a single VDJ recombination. The model allows first-principles calculation of the probability, $p$, that two zebrafish responding to the same antigen will select the same VDJ recombination. This probability $p$ increases with the B cell population size and the B cell selection intensity. The probability $p$ decreases with the B cell hypermutation rate. The multi-scale model predicts correlations in the immune system of the zebrafish that are highly similar to that from experiment.
Deem Michael W.
Pan Keyao
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