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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2024

MHCSeqNet2-improved peptide-class I MHC binding prediction for alleles with low data.

Patiphan Wongklaew, Sira Sriswasdi, Ekapol Chuangsuwanich

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2024. 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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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Patiphan WongklaewDepartment of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand.ORCID 0009-0005-6728-1446
Sira SriswasdiCenter of Excellence in Computational Molecular Biology, Division of Research Affairs, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand.ORCID 0000-0002-4117-3632
Ekapol ChuangsuwanichDepartment of Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand.
Chulalongkorn University · TH

Funding

Chulalongkorn University HEA663000041
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

motivationThe binding of a peptide antigen to a Class I major histocompatibility complex (MHC) protein is part of a key process that lets the immune system recognize an infected cell or a cancer cell. This mechanism enabled the development of peptide-based vaccines that can activate the patient's immune response to treat cancers. Hence, the ability of accurately predict peptide-MHC binding is an essential component for prioritizing the best peptides for each patient. However, peptide-MHC binding experimental data for many MHC alleles are still lacking, which limited the accuracy of existing prediction models.

resultsIn this study, we presented an improved version of MHCSeqNet that utilized sub-word-level peptide features, a 3D structure embedding for MHC alleles, and an expanded training dataset to achieve better generalizability on MHC alleles with small amounts of data. Visualization of MHC allele embeddings confirms that the model was able to group alleles with similar binding specificity, including those with no peptide ligand in the training dataset. Furthermore, an external evaluation suggests that MHCSeqNet2 can improve the prioritization of T cell epitopes for MHC alleles with small amount of training data. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: The source code and installation instruction for MHCSeqNet2 are available at https://github.com/cmb-chula/MHCSeqNet2.

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Histocompatibility Antigens Class IPeptidesAllelesEpitopes, T-LymphocyteHumansProtein BindingEpitopes, T-LymphocyteHistocompatibility Antigens Class IPeptides

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PMID38152987
PMCPMC10783953
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