The impact of frost-damage on the quality and quantity of the secreted antigen-specific IgG repertoire.

Magda Rybczynska, Jean Baudry, Eyer Klaus

Vaccine 2020 Jul 14

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Freezing of alum-based vaccines drastically alters their colloidal composition and leads to irreversible cluster formation. The loss of stability is well described, but the impact of frost damage on the functionality of the induced and secreted antibody repertoire has not been studied in detail. We therefore applied our single-cell measurement platform to extract the frequencies of Immunoglobulin G-secreting cells in combination with individual secretion rates and affinities. We showed that, frost-damaged or not, the tested vaccine was able to generate similar frequencies of total and antigen-affine IgG-secreting cells. Additionally, the frost-damaged vaccine stimulated a similar T-cell cytokine secretion pattern when compared to the regularly stored vaccine. However, frost-damaged vaccines induced no efficient affinity maturation and a complete collapse of the affinity distribution was observed. This study unveiled the impact of frost-damage to alum-based vaccines on the induced secreted antibody repertoire, and illustrated the power of functional single-antibody analysis. Copyright © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.

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Magda Rybczynska, Jean Baudry, Eyer Klaus. The impact of frost-damage on the quality and quantity of the secreted antigen-specific IgG repertoire. Vaccine. 2020 Jul 14;38(33):5337-5342