Fundamentals and methods for T‐and B‐cell epitope prediction

JL Sanchez-Trincado… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Adaptive immunity is mediated by T‐and B‐cells, which are immune cells capable of
developing pathogen‐specific memory that confers immunological protection. Memory and …

Challenges in neoantigen-directed therapeutics

L Lybaert, S Lefever, B Fant, E Smits, B De Geest… - Cancer Cell, 2023 - cell.com
A fundamental prerequisite for the efficacy of cancer immunotherapy is the presence of
functional, antigen-specific T cells within the tumor. Neoantigen-directed therapy is a …

Escape from recognition of SARS-CoV-2 variant spike epitopes but overall preservation of T cell immunity

C Riou, R Keeton, T Moyo-Gwete… - Science translational …, 2021 - science.org
SARS-CoV-2 variants that escape neutralization and potentially affect vaccine efficacy have
emerged. T cell responses play a role in protection from reinfection and severe disease, but …

Improved prediction of MHC II antigen presentation through integration and motif deconvolution of mass spectrometry MHC eluted ligand data

B Reynisson, C Barra, S Kaabinejadian… - Journal of proteome …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Major histocompatibility complex II (MHC II) molecules play a vital role in the onset and
control of cellular immunity. In a highly selective process, MHC II presents peptides derived …

Improved methods for predicting peptide binding affinity to MHC class II molecules

KK Jensen, M Andreatta, P Marcatili, S Buus… - …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Major histocompatibility complex class II (MHC‐II) molecules are expressed on the surface
of professional antigen‐presenting cells where they display peptides to T helper cells, which …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

IEDB-AR: immune epitope database—analysis resource in 2019

SK Dhanda, S Mahajan, S Paul, Z Yan… - Nucleic acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Immune Epitope Database Analysis Resource (IEDB-AR, http://tools. iedb. org/)
is a companion website to the IEDB that provides computational tools focused on the …

[HTML][HTML] Heterogeneous tumor-immune microenvironments among differentially growing metastases in an ovarian cancer patient

A Jiménez-Sánchez, D Memon, S Pourpe… - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
We present an exceptional case of a patient with high-grade serous ovarian cancer, treated
with multiple chemotherapy regimens, who exhibited regression of some metastatic lesions …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-antigen spherical nucleic acid cancer vaccines

MH Teplensky, M Evangelopoulos, JW Dittmar… - Nature biomedical …, 2023 - nature.com
Cancer vaccines must activate multiple immune cell types to be effective against aggressive
tumours. Here we report the impact of the structural presentation of two antigenic peptides …

[HTML][HTML] Contriving multi-epitope subunit of vaccine for COVID-19: immunoinformatics approaches

R Dong, Z Chu, F Yu, Y Zha - Frontiers in immunology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
COVID-19 has recently become the most serious threat to public health, and its prevalence
has been increasing at an alarming rate. The incubation period for the virus is~ 1–14 days …