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ArticleBriefings in bioinformatics2023

Accurate TCR-pMHC interaction prediction using a BERT-based transfer learning method.

Jiawei Zhang, Wang Ma, Hui Yao

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Article in Briefings in bioinformatics, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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22citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.5field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Jiawei ZhangFresh Wind Biotechnologies Inc. (Tianjin), Tianjin, China.
Wang MaFresh Wind Biotechnologies Inc. (Tianjin), Tianjin, China.
Hui YaoFresh Wind Biotechnologies USA Inc., Houston, TX, USA.

Funding

Fresh Wind Biotechnologies USA Inc.
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Accurate prediction of TCR-pMHC binding is important for the development of cancer immunotherapies, especially TCR-based agents. Existing algorithms often experience diminished performance when dealing with unseen epitopes, primarily due to the complexity in TCR-pMHC recognition patterns and the scarcity of available data for training. We have developed a novel deep learning model, 'TCR Antigen Binding Recognition' based on BERT, named as TABR-BERT. Leveraging BERT's potent representation learning capabilities, TABR-BERT effectively captures essential information regarding TCR-pMHC interactions from TCR sequences, antigen epitope sequences and epitope-MHC binding. By transferring this knowledge to predict TCR-pMHC recognition, TABR-BERT demonstrated better results in benchmark tests than existing methods, particularly for unseen epitopes.

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AlgorithmsReceptors, Antigen, T-CellEpitopesMachine LearningProtein BindingEpitopesReceptors, Antigen, T-CellBERTdeep learningimmunotherapyprediction of TCR-pMHC interactionrepresentation learning

Identifiers

PMID38040492
PMCPMC10783865
OpenAlexW4389262331

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