Toward a general model of CD4+ T cell subset specification and memory cell formation

KC Osum, MK Jenkins - Immunity, 2023 - cell.com
In the past few decades, a number of transformative discoveries have been made regarding
memory CD8+ T cell biology; meanwhile, the CD4+ T cell field has lagged behind this …

Current advances in biopharmaceutical informatics: guidelines, impact and challenges in the computational developability assessment of antibody therapeutics

R Khetan, R Curtis, CM Deane, JT Hadsund, U Kar… - MAbs, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Therapeutic monoclonal antibodies and their derivatives are key components of clinical
pipelines in the global biopharmaceutical industry. The availability of large datasets of …

MHC-II neoantigens shape tumour immunity and response to immunotherapy

E Alspach, DM Lussier, AP Miceli, I Kizhvatov… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The ability of the immune system to eliminate and shape the immunogenicity of tumours
defines the process of cancer immunoediting. Immunotherapies such as those that target …

Predicting HLA class II antigen presentation through integrated deep learning

B Chen, MS Khodadoust, N Olsson, LE Wagar… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Accurate prediction of antigen presentation by human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class II
molecules would be valuable for vaccine development and cancer immunotherapies …

Robust prediction of HLA class II epitopes by deep motif deconvolution of immunopeptidomes

J Racle, J Michaux, GA Rockinger, M Arnaud… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Predictions of epitopes presented by class II human leukocyte antigen molecules (HLA-II)
have limited accuracy, restricting vaccine and therapy design. Here we combined unbiased …

Evolutionary pressure against MHC class II binding cancer mutations

RM Pyke, WK Thompson, RM Salem, J Font-Burgada… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
The anti-cancer immune response against mutated peptides of potential immunological
relevance (neoantigens) is primarily attributed to MHC-I-restricted cytotoxic CD8+ T cell …

Systematically benchmarking peptide-MHC binding predictors: From synthetic to naturally processed epitopes

W Zhao, X Sher - PLoS computational biology, 2018 - journals.plos.org
A number of machine learning-based predictors have been developed for identifying
immunogenic T-cell epitopes based on major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I and II …

Linked CD4+/CD8+ T cell neoantigen vaccination overcomes immune checkpoint blockade resistance and enables tumor regression

JS Dolina, J Lee, SE Brightman… - The Journal of …, 2023 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Therapeutic benefit to immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) is currently limited to the subset of
cancers thought to possess a sufficient tumor mutational burden (TMB) to allow for the …

Cancer neoantigens: challenges and future directions for prediction, prioritization, and validation

ES Borden, KH Buetow, MA Wilson… - Frontiers in oncology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Prioritization of immunogenic neoantigens is key to enhancing cancer immunotherapy
through the development of personalized vaccines, adoptive T cell therapy, and the …

Identification and validation of 174 COVID-19 vaccine candidate epitopes reveals low performance of common epitope prediction tools

M Prachar, S Justesen, DB Steen-Jensen… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
The outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 (2019-nCoV) virus has highlighted the need for fast and
efficacious vaccine development. Stimulation of a proper immune response that leads to …