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ArticleFrontiers in immunology2019

Detection of Enriched T Cell Epitope Specificity in Full T Cell Receptor Sequence Repertoires.

Sofie Gielis, Pieter Moris, Wout Bittremieux, Nicolas De Neuter, Benson Ogunjimi, Kris Laukens, Pieter Meysman

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Article in Frontiers in immunology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 108 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors.

Sofie GielisAdrem Data Lab, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
Pieter MorisAdrem Data Lab, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
Wout BittremieuxAdrem Data Lab, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
Nicolas De NeuterAdrem Data Lab, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
Benson OgunjimiAntwerp Unit for Data Analysis and Computation in Immunology and Sequencing (AUDACIS), University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
Kris LaukensAdrem Data Lab, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.
Pieter MeysmanAdrem Data Lab, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

High-throughput T cell receptor (TCR) sequencing allows the characterization of an individual's TCR repertoire and directly queries their immune state. However, it remains a non-trivial task to couple these sequenced TCRs to their antigenic targets. In this paper, we present a novel strategy to annotate full TCR sequence repertoires with their epitope specificities. The strategy is based on a machine learning algorithm to learn the TCR patterns common to the recognition of a specific epitope. These results are then combined with a statistical analysis to evaluate the occurrence of specific epitope-reactive TCR sequences per epitope in repertoire data. In this manner, we can directly study the capacity of full TCR repertoires to target specific epitopes of the relevant vaccines or pathogens. We demonstrate the usability of this approach on three independent datasets related to vaccine monitoring and infectious disease diagnostics by independently identifying the epitopes that are targeted by the TCR repertoire. The developed method is freely available as a web tool for academic use at tcrex.biodatamining.be.

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Models, BiologicalAlgorithmsAmino Acid SequenceClonal EvolutionDatabases, GeneticEpitopes, T-LymphocyteHumansReceptors, Antigen, T-CellReproducibility of ResultsSoftwareT-Cell Antigen Receptor SpecificityT-LymphocytesWeb BrowserEpitopes, T-LymphocyteReceptors, Antigen, T-Cellcytomegalovirus (CMV)enrichment analysisepitope specificityimmunoinformaticsinfectious diseaseTCR repertoire analysisvaccinesyellow fever virus (YFV)

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PMCPMC6896208

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