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ArticleNucleic acids research2019

SEPPA 3.0-enhanced spatial epitope prediction enabling glycoprotein antigens.

Chen Zhou, Zikun Chen, Lu Zhang, Deyu Yan, Tiantian Mao, Kailin Tang, Tianyi Qiu, Zhiwei Cao

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 75 papers.

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8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Chen ZhouShanghai 10th People's Hospital & School of Life Sciences and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China.
Zikun ChenShanghai 10th People's Hospital & School of Life Sciences and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China.
Lu ZhangShanghai 10th People's Hospital & School of Life Sciences and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China.
Deyu YanShanghai 10th People's Hospital & School of Life Sciences and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China.
Tiantian MaoShanghai 10th People's Hospital & School of Life Sciences and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China.
Kailin TangShanghai 10th People's Hospital & School of Life Sciences and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China.
Tianyi QiuShanghai 10th People's Hospital & School of Life Sciences and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China.
Zhiwei CaoShanghai 10th People's Hospital & School of Life Sciences and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China.
Tongji University · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

B-cell epitope information is critical to immune therapy and vaccine design. Protein epitopes can be significantly affected by glycosylation, while no methods have considered this till now. Based on previous versions of Spatial Epitope Prediction of Protein Antigens (SEPPA), we here present an enhanced tool SEPPA 3.0, enabling glycoprotein antigens. Parameters were updated based on the latest and largest dataset. Then, additional micro-environmental features of glycosylation triangles and glycosylation-related amino acid indexes were added as important classifiers, coupled with final calibration based on neighboring antigenicity. Logistic regression model was retained as SEPPA 2.0. The AUC value of 0.794 was obtained through 10-fold cross-validation on internal validation. Independent testing on general protein antigens resulted in AUC of 0.740 with BA (balanced accuracy) of 0.657 as baseline of SEPPA 3.0. Most importantly, when tested on independent glycoprotein antigens only, SEPPA 3.0 gave an AUC of 0.749 and BA of 0.665, leading the top performance among peers. As the first server enabling accurate epitope prediction for glycoproteins, SEPPA 3.0 shows significant advantages over popular peers on both general protein and glycoprotein antigens. It can be accessed at http://bidd2.nus.edu.sg/SEPPA3/ or at http://www.badd-cao.net/seppa3/index.html. Batch query is supported.

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Protein Processing, Post-TranslationalSoftwareAlgorithmsAntigensArea Under CurveB-LymphocytesDatabases, ProteinDatasets as TopicEpitope MappingEpitopes, B-LymphocyteGlycoproteinsGlycosylationHIV Envelope Protein gp120HumansInternetLogistic ModelsAntigensEpitopes, B-LymphocyteGlycoproteinsHIV Envelope Protein gp120

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PMID31114919
PMCPMC6602482
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