T cell epitope predictions

B Peters, M Nielsen, A Sette - Annual Review of Immunology, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Throughout the body, T cells monitor MHC-bound ligands expressed on the surface of
essentially all cell types. MHC ligands that trigger a T cell immune response are referred to …

Predicting antigen presentation—what could we learn from a million peptides?

D Gfeller, M Bassani-Sternberg - Frontiers in immunology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Antigen presentation lies at the heart of immune recognition of infected or malignant cells.
For this reason, important efforts have been made to predict which peptides are more likely …

Post-translational modifications reshape the antigenic landscape of the MHC I immunopeptidome in tumors

A Kacen, A Javitt, MP Kramer, D Morgenstern… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Post-translational modification (PTM) of antigens provides an additional source of
specificities targeted by immune responses to tumors or pathogens, but identifying antigen …

Mass spectrometry profiling of HLA-associated peptidomes in mono-allelic cells enables more accurate epitope prediction

JG Abelin, DB Keskin, S Sarkizova, CR Hartigan… - Immunity, 2017 - cell.com
Identification of human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-bound peptides by liquid chromatography-
tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) is poised to provide a deep understanding of rules …

Direct identification of clinically relevant neoepitopes presented on native human melanoma tissue by mass spectrometry

M Bassani-Sternberg, E Bräunlein, R Klar… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Although mutations may represent attractive targets for immunotherapy, direct identification
of mutated peptide ligands isolated from human leucocyte antigens (HLA) on the surface of …

MHCflurry: open-source class I MHC binding affinity prediction

TJ O'Donnell, A Rubinsteyn, M Bonsack, AB Riemer… - Cell systems, 2018 - cell.com
Predicting the binding affinity of major histocompatibility complex I (MHC I) proteins and their
peptide ligands is important for vaccine design. We introduce an open-source package for …

Deciphering HLA-I motifs across HLA peptidomes improves neo-antigen predictions and identifies allostery regulating HLA specificity

M Bassani-Sternberg, C Chong… - PLoS computational …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
The precise identification of Human Leukocyte Antigen class I (HLA-I) binding motifs plays a
central role in our ability to understand and predict (neo-) antigen presentation in infectious …

High-throughput and sensitive immunopeptidomics platform reveals profound interferonγ-mediated remodeling of the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) ligandome

C Chong, F Marino, HS Pak, J Racle, RT Daniel… - Molecular & Cellular …, 2018 - ASBMB
Comprehensive knowledge of the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class-I and class-II
peptides presented to T-cells is crucial for designing innovative therapeutics against cancer …

The length distribution and multiple specificity of naturally presented HLA-I ligands

D Gfeller, P Guillaume, J Michaux, HS Pak… - The Journal of …, 2018 - journals.aai.org
HLA-I molecules bind short peptides and present them for recognition by CD8+ T cells. The
length of HLA-I ligands typically ranges from 8 to 12 aa, but variability is observed across …

Toxoplasma Modulates Signature Pathways of Human Epilepsy, Neurodegeneration & Cancer

HM Ngô, Y Zhou, H Lorenzi, K Wang, TK Kim… - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
One third of humans are infected lifelong with the brain-dwelling, protozoan parasite,
Toxoplasma gondii. Approximately fifteen million of these have congenital toxoplasmosis …