NetMHCIIpan-3.0, a common pan-specific MHC class II prediction method including all three human MHC class II isotypes, HLA-DR, HLA-DP and HLA-DQ

• Autores: Karosiene, Edita; Rasmussen, Michael; Blicher, Thomas; Lund, Ole; Buus, Soren; Nielsen, Morten
• Año de publicación: 2013
• Idioma: inglés
• Tipo de recurso: artículo
• Materia: Mhc; Hla-Dq; Hla-Dr; Hla-Dp; Binding Prediction
• Institución: Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

Major histocompatibility complex class II (MHCII) molecules play an important role in cell-mediated immunity. They present specific peptides derived from endosomal proteins for recognition by T helper cells. The identification of peptides that bind to MHCII molecules is therefore of great importance for understanding the nature of immune responses and identifying T cell epitopes for the design of new vaccines and immunotherapies. Given the large number of MHC variants, and the costly experimental procedures needed to evaluate individual peptide-MHC interactions, computational predictions have become particularly attractive as first-line methods in epitope discovery. However, only a few so-called pan-specific prediction methods capable of predicting binding to any MHC molecule with known protein sequence are currently available, and all of them are limited to HLA-DR. Here, we present the first pan-specific method capable of predicting peptide binding to any HLA class II molecule with a defined protein sequence. The method employs a strategy common for HLA-DR, HLA-DP and HLA-DQ molecules to define the peptide-binding MHC environment in terms of a pseudo sequence. This strategy allows the inclusion of new molecules even from other species. The method was evaluated in several benchmarks and demonstrates a significant improvement over molecule-specific methods as well as the ability to predict peptide binding of previously uncharacterised MHCII molecules. To the best of our knowledge, the NetMHCIIpan-3.0 method is the first pan-specific predictor covering all HLA class II molecules with known sequences including HLA-DR, HLA-DP, and HLA-DQ. The NetMHCpan-3.0 method is available at http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/services/NetMHCIIpan-3.0 .
Fil: Karosiene, Edita. Technical University Of Denmark; Dinamarca
Fil: Rasmussen, Michael. Universidad de Copenhagen; Dinamarca
Fil: Blicher, Thomas. Universidad de Copenhagen; Dinamarca
Fil: Lund, Ole. Technical University Of Denmark; Dinamarca
Fil: Buus, Soren. Universidad de Copenhagen; Dinamarca
Fil: Nielsen, Morten. Universidad Nacional de San Martín; Argentina. Technical University Of Denmark; Dinamarca. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Houssay. Instituto de Química y Fisicoquímica Biológicas; Argentina