Abstract
Administered antibodies can suppress humoral immune response. Though there are two hypotheses explaining the suppression, such as the epitope-masking and Fc-receptor mediated suppression, the epitope-masking hypothesis has garnered more supports. To better understand how the immune suppression works and to gain a quantitative and qualitative insight, we developed the first mathematical immune suppression model based on the epitope-masking hypothesis. However, because the hypothesis does not account for the actual B suppression mechanism, the fact that antigen-depletion induces the arrest of proliferating B cells was incorporated to the model. The model can reproduce immune suppression phenomena and complement the epitope-masking hypothesis by suggesting that the key mechanism for the suppression is the arrest of proliferating B cells and it was shown to be feasible. It is expected that our model gives a new insight to researchers in designing experiments for discovering the underlying mechanism of immune suppression.
This work was supported by National Research Laboratory Grant (2005-01450) from the Ministry of Science and Technology. We would like to thank CHUNG Moon Soul Center for BioInformation and BioElectronics and the IBM-SUR program for providing research and computing facilities.
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Na, D., Lee, D. (2005). Mathematical Modeling of Immune Suppression. In: Jacob, C., Pilat, M.L., Bentley, P.J., Timmis, J.I. (eds) Artificial Immune Systems. ICARIS 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3627. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11536444_14
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