Abstract
BackgroundA key step in the development of an adaptive immune response to pathogens or vaccines is the binding of short peptides to molecules of the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) for presentation to T lymphocytes, which are thereby activated and differentiate into effector and memory cells. The rational design of vaccines consists in part in the identification of appropriate peptides to effect this process. There are several algorithms currently in use for making such predictions, but these are limited to a small number of MHC molecules and have good but imperfect prediction power.ResultsWe have undertaken an exploration of the power gained by taking advantage of a natural representation of the amino acids in terms of their biophysical properties. We used several well-known statistical classifiers using either a naive encoding of amino acids by name or an encoding by biophysical properties. In all cases, the encoding by biophysical properties leads to substantially lower misclassification error.ConclusionRepresentation of amino acids using a few important bio-physio-chemical property provide a natural basis for representing peptides and greatly improves peptide-MHC class I binding prediction.
Highlights
A key step in the development of an adaptive immune response to pathogens or vaccines is the binding of short peptides, to molecules of the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) for presentation to T lymphocytes, which are thereby activated and differentiate into effector and memory cells
The rational design of vaccines consists in part in the identification of appropriate peptides to effect this process
The original source of much of this data is the MHCPEP [40], which further subclassifies the binders as High, Medium, and Low binders
Summary
A key step in the development of an adaptive immune response to pathogens or vaccines is the binding of short peptides, to molecules of the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) for presentation to T lymphocytes, which are thereby activated and differentiate into effector and memory cells. A variety of methods for predicting peptide-binding to specific MHC-alleles based on sequence information of the peptides have been developed. There are several algorithms currently in use for making such predictions, but these are limited to a small number of MHC molecules and have good but imperfect prediction power
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