Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 068101 (2003) [4 pages]Sequence Space Localization in the Immune System Response to Vaccination and DiseaseSee Also: Erratum Received 17 September 2002; published 7 August 2003 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 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. © 2003 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.068101
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.068101
PACS:
87.10.+e, 87.15.Aa, 87.17.–d, 87.23.Kg
See AlsoErratum: Michael W. Deem and Ha Youn Lee, Erratum: Sequence Space Localization in the Immune System Response to Vaccination and Disease [Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 068101 (2003), Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 229902 (2003). |
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