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ArticleCommunications biology2021

NetTCR-2.0 enables accurate prediction of TCR-peptide binding by using paired TCRα and β sequence data.

Alessandro Montemurro, Viktoria Schuster, Helle Rus Povlsen, Amalie Kai Bentzen, Vanessa Jurtz, William D Chronister, Austin Crinklaw, Sine R Hadrup, Ole Winther, Bjoern Peters and 2 more

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Article in Communications biology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 159 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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12 authors.

Alessandro MontemurroDepartment of Health Technology, Section for Bioinformatics, Technical University of Denmark, DTU, 2800 Kgs, Lyngby, Denmark.
Viktoria SchusterDepartment of Health Technology, Section for Bioinformatics, Technical University of Denmark, DTU, 2800 Kgs, Lyngby, Denmark.
Helle Rus PovlsenDepartment of Health Technology, Section for Bioinformatics, Technical University of Denmark, DTU, 2800 Kgs, Lyngby, Denmark.
Amalie Kai BentzenDepartment of Health Technology, Section for Experimental and Translational Immunology, Technical University of Denmark, DTU, 2800 Kgs, Lyngby, Denmark.
Vanessa JurtzDepartment of Health Technology, Section for Bioinformatics, Technical University of Denmark, DTU, 2800 Kgs, Lyngby, Denmark.
William D ChronisterCenter for Infectious Disease and Vaccine Research, La Jolla Institute for Immunology, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA.
Austin CrinklawCenter for Infectious Disease and Vaccine Research, La Jolla Institute for Immunology, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3586-4533
Sine R HadrupDepartment of Health Technology, Section for Experimental and Translational Immunology, Technical University of Denmark, DTU, 2800 Kgs, Lyngby, Denmark.
Ole WintherDepartment of Biology, Bioinformatics Centre, University of Copenhagen, 2200, Copenhagen, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0002-1966-3205
Bjoern PetersCenter for Infectious Disease and Vaccine Research, La Jolla Institute for Immunology, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA.
Leon Eyrich JessenDepartment of Health Technology, Section for Bioinformatics, Technical University of Denmark, DTU, 2800 Kgs, Lyngby, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0003-2879-2559
Morten NielsenDepartment of Health Technology, Section for Bioinformatics, Technical University of Denmark, DTU, 2800 Kgs, Lyngby, Denmark. morni@dtu.dk.ORCID 0000-0001-7885-4311

Funding

Lundbeckfonden (Lundbeck Foundation) R324-2019-1671NIAID NIH HHS HHSN272201200010CU.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) HHSN272201200010CERC
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Prediction of T-cell receptor (TCR) interactions with MHC-peptide complexes remains highly challenging. This challenge is primarily due to three dominant factors: data accuracy, data scarceness, and problem complexity. Here, we showcase that "shallow" convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures are adequate to deal with the problem complexity imposed by the length variations of TCRs. We demonstrate that current public bulk CDR3β-pMHC binding data overall is of low quality and that the development of accurate prediction models is contingent on paired α/β TCR sequence data corresponding to at least 150 distinct pairs for each investigated pMHC. In comparison, models trained on CDR3α or CDR3β data alone demonstrated a variable and pMHC specific relative performance drop. Together these findings support that T-cell specificity is predictable given the availability of accurate and sufficient paired TCR sequence data. NetTCR-2.0 is publicly available at https://services.healthtech.dtu.dk/service.php?NetTCR-2.0 .

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Neural Networks, ComputerProtein BindingReceptors, Antigen, T-CellReceptors, Antigen, T-Cell

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PMID34508155
PMCPMC8433451

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