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ArticleFrontiers in immunology2021

PopCover-2.0. Improved Selection of Peptide Sets With Optimal HLA and Pathogen Diversity Coverage.

Jonas Birkelund Nilsson, Alba Grifoni, Alison Tarke, Alessandro Sette, Morten Nielsen

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Article in Frontiers in immunology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.

Jonas Birkelund NilssonDepartment of Health Technology, Section for Bioinformatics, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark.
Alba GrifoniCenter for Infectious Disease and Vaccine Research, La Jolla Institute for Immunology, La Jolla, CA, United States.
Alison TarkeCenter for Infectious Disease and Vaccine Research, La Jolla Institute for Immunology, La Jolla, CA, United States.
Alessandro SetteCenter for Infectious Disease and Vaccine Research, La Jolla Institute for Immunology, La Jolla, CA, United States.
Morten NielsenDepartment of Health Technology, Section for Bioinformatics, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark.
La Jolla Institute for Immunology · USTechnical University of Denmark · DK

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The use of minimal peptide sets offers an appealing alternative for design of vaccines and T cell diagnostics compared to conventional whole protein approaches. T cell immunogenicity towards peptides is contingent on binding to human leukocyte antigen (HLA) molecules of the given individual. HLA is highly polymorphic, and each variant typically presents a different repertoire of peptides. This polymorphism combined with pathogen diversity challenges the rational selection of peptide sets with broad immunogenic potential and population coverage. Here we propose PopCover-2.0, a simple yet highly effective method, for resolving this challenge. The method takes as input a set of (predicted) CD8 and/or CD4 T cell epitopes with associated HLA restriction and pathogen strain annotation together with information on HLA allele frequencies, and identifies peptide sets with optimal pathogen and HLA (class I and II) coverage. PopCover-2.0 was benchmarked on historic data in the context of HIV and SARS-CoV-2. Further, the immunogenicity of the selected SARS-CoV-2 peptides was confirmed by experimentally validating the peptide pools for T cell responses in a panel of SARS-CoV-2 infected individuals. In summary, PopCover-2.0 is an effective method for rational selection of peptide subsets with broad HLA and pathogen coverage. The tool is available at https://services.healthtech.dtu.dk/service.php?PopCover-2.0.

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AllelesAllergy and ImmunologyCD4-Positive T-LymphocytesCD8-Positive T-LymphocytesCOVID-19Epitopes, T-LymphocyteGenotypeHLA AntigensHumansImmunogenicity, VaccineImmunologic TechniquesPeptidesSARS-CoV-2Epitopes, T-LymphocyteHLA AntigensPeptidesallelic coverageepitope selectionHLAHLA class IHLA class IIpathogen coveragerational epitope selectionvaccine design

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PMID34484239
PMCPMC8416060
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