HLA variation and disease

CA Dendrou, J Petersen, J Rossjohn… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
Fifty years since the first description of an association between HLA and human disease,
HLA molecules have proven to be central to physiology, protective immunity and …

Selection of unrelated donors and cord blood units for hematopoietic cell transplantation: guidelines from the NMDP/CIBMTR

J Dehn, S Spellman, CK Hurley… - Blood, The Journal …, 2019 - ashpublications.org
Allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation involves consideration of both donor and
recipient characteristics to guide the selection of a suitable graft. Sufficient high-resolution …

A large peptidome dataset improves HLA class I epitope prediction across most of the human population

S Sarkizova, S Klaeger, PM Le, LW Li, G Oliveira… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Prediction of HLA epitopes is important for the development of cancer immunotherapies and
vaccines. However, current prediction algorithms have limited predictive power, in part …

A transformer-based model to predict peptide–HLA class I binding and optimize mutated peptides for vaccine design

Y Chu, Y Zhang, Q Wang, L Zhang, X Wang… - Nature Machine …, 2022 - nature.com
Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) can recognize and bind foreign peptides to present them to
specialized immune cells, then initiate an immune response. Computational prediction of the …

Mapping the dynamic genetic regulatory architecture of HLA genes at single-cell resolution

JB Kang, AZ Shen, S Gurajala, A Nathan, L Rumker… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The human leukocyte antigen (HLA) locus plays a critical role in complex traits spanning
autoimmune and infectious diseases, transplantation and cancer. While coding variation in …

[HTML][HTML] The dual role of HLA-C in tolerance and immunity at the maternal-fetal interface

H Papúchová, TB Meissner, Q Li… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
To establish a healthy pregnancy, maternal immune cells must tolerate fetal allo-antigens
and remain competent to respond to infections both systemically and in placental tissues …

Binding affinities of 438 HLA proteins to complete proteomes of seven pandemic viruses and distributions of strongest and weakest HLA peptide binders in …

R Barquera, E Collen, D Di, S Buhler, J Teixeira… - Hla, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We report detailed peptide‐binding affinities between 438 HLA Class I and Class II proteins
and complete proteomes of seven pandemic human viruses, including coronaviruses …

Human T cell receptor occurrence patterns encode immune history, genetic background, and receptor specificity

WS DeWitt III, A Smith, G Schoch, JA Hansen… - Elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
The T cell receptor (TCR) repertoire encodes immune exposure history through the dynamic
formation of immunological memory. Statistical analysis of repertoire sequencing data has …

Generalists and specialists: a new view of how MHC class I molecules fight infectious pathogens

J Kaufman - Trends in Immunology, 2018 - cell.com
In comparison with the major histocompatibility complexes (MHCs) of typical mammals, the
chicken MHC is simple and compact with a single dominantly expressed class I molecule …

High-affinity oligoclonal TCRs define effective adoptive T cell therapy targeting mutant KRAS-G12D

MJW Sim, J Lu, M Spencer, F Hopkins… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Complete cancer regression occurs in a subset of patients following adoptive T cell therapy
(ACT) of ex vivo expanded tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs). However, the low success …