Article ; Online: Peptide Hamming Graphs: A network representation of peptides presented through specific HLAs to identify potential epitope clusters.
Journal of immunological methods
2023 Volume 517, Page(s) 113474
Abstract: Background: Class I Major Histocompatibility Complex plays a critical role in the adaptive immune response by binding to peptides processed by Proteasome and Transporter associated with antigen processing complex and presenting them on the cell surface ... ...
Abstract | Background: Class I Major Histocompatibility Complex plays a critical role in the adaptive immune response by binding to peptides processed by Proteasome and Transporter associated with antigen processing complex and presenting them on the cell surface to cytotoxic T-cells. Understanding the process of peptide presentation and studying how presented peptides are distributed in the huge space of all potential epitopes could have a dramatic impact in the context of vaccine design, transplantation, autoimmunity, and cancer development. Methods: In the present work we propose a graph-driven approach to investigate the landscape of both self (human) and viral (254 organisms) peptides presented on cell surface through class I Major Histocompatibility Complex considering specific HLAs. For each considered HLA (N = 89) we designed a network, namely Peptide Hamming Graph, where nodes are peptides predicted to be presented by a given HLA and an edge is set when the Hamming distance between two peptides is equal or smaller than 2 (i.e. the same amino acid occurs in at least 7 positions of the two sequences). Results: Through the analysis of Peptide Hamming Graphs we studied how predicted presented peptides are distributed in the whole configurational space for different HLAs, identifying sets of viral peptides that can constitute a potential target for the immune system. In particular we selected connected components of the graph made exclusively of viral peptides and sets of viral peptides with high node degree interacting exclusively with viral neighbours. Conclusions: This work constitutes an innovative approach to study potential cytotoxic T-cell epitopes relying on a network approach, overcoming the classical paradigm based on the identification of potential epitopes only considering their features as single peptides. T-cell cross-reactivity plays a focal role for the efficacy of this strategy increasing the probability of recognition, and consequently a stronger immune response, of presented peptides far from self, sharing a common pattern in terms of sequence similarity. |
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MeSH term(s) | Humans ; HLA Antigens ; Peptides ; Antigen Presentation ; Histocompatibility Antigens ; Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte |
Chemical Substances | HLA Antigens ; Peptides ; Histocompatibility Antigens ; Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte |
Language | English |
Publishing date | 2023-04-15 |
Publishing country | Netherlands |
Document type | Journal Article |
ZDB-ID | 120142-6 |
ISSN | 1872-7905 ; 0022-1759 |
ISSN (online) | 1872-7905 |
ISSN | 0022-1759 |
DOI | 10.1016/j.jim.2023.113474 |
Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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