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ArticleAdvanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)2024

Predicting Antigen-Specificities of Orphan T Cell Receptors from Cancer Patients with TCRpcDist.

Marta A S Perez, Johanna Chiffelle, Sara Bobisse, Francesca Mayol-Rullan, Marine Bugnon, Maiia E Bragina, Marion Arnaud, Christophe Sauvage, David Barras, Denarda Dangaj Laniti and 5 more

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Article in Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany), 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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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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9 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors.

Marta A S PerezDepartment of Oncology, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Lausanne Branch, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and University of Lausanne (UNIL), Agora Cancer Research Center, Lausanne, CH-1005, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-3963-5965
Johanna ChiffelleDepartment of Oncology, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Lausanne Branch, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and University of Lausanne (UNIL), Agora Cancer Research Center, Lausanne, CH-1005, Switzerland.
Sara BobisseDepartment of Oncology, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Lausanne Branch, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and University of Lausanne (UNIL), Agora Cancer Research Center, Lausanne, CH-1005, Switzerland.
Francesca Mayol-RullanDepartment of Oncology, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Lausanne Branch, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and University of Lausanne (UNIL), Agora Cancer Research Center, Lausanne, CH-1005, Switzerland.
Marine BugnonDepartment of Oncology, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Lausanne Branch, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and University of Lausanne (UNIL), Agora Cancer Research Center, Lausanne, CH-1005, Switzerland.
Maiia E BraginaDepartment of Oncology, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Lausanne Branch, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and University of Lausanne (UNIL), Agora Cancer Research Center, Lausanne, CH-1005, Switzerland.
Marion ArnaudDepartment of Oncology, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Lausanne Branch, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and University of Lausanne (UNIL), Agora Cancer Research Center, Lausanne, CH-1005, Switzerland.
Christophe SauvageDepartment of Oncology, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Lausanne Branch, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and University of Lausanne (UNIL), Agora Cancer Research Center, Lausanne, CH-1005, Switzerland.
David BarrasDepartment of Oncology, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Lausanne Branch, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and University of Lausanne (UNIL), Agora Cancer Research Center, Lausanne, CH-1005, Switzerland.
Denarda Dangaj LanitiDepartment of Oncology, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Lausanne Branch, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and University of Lausanne (UNIL), Agora Cancer Research Center, Lausanne, CH-1005, Switzerland.
Florian HuberDepartment of Oncology, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Lausanne Branch, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and University of Lausanne (UNIL), Agora Cancer Research Center, Lausanne, CH-1005, Switzerland.
Michal Bassani-SternbergDepartment of Oncology, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Lausanne Branch, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and University of Lausanne (UNIL), Agora Cancer Research Center, Lausanne, CH-1005, Switzerland.
George CoukosDepartment of Oncology, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Lausanne Branch, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and University of Lausanne (UNIL), Agora Cancer Research Center, Lausanne, CH-1005, Switzerland.
Alexandre HarariDepartment of Oncology, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Lausanne Branch, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and University of Lausanne (UNIL), Agora Cancer Research Center, Lausanne, CH-1005, Switzerland.
Vincent ZoeteDepartment of Oncology, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Lausanne Branch, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and University of Lausanne (UNIL), Agora Cancer Research Center, Lausanne, CH-1005, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-2336-6537

Funding

Biltema FoundationCancera FoundationLudwig Institute for Cancer ResearchMats Paulssons FoundationSwiss National Science Foundation 205321_192019Swiss National Science Foundation 310030_182384Swiss National Science Foundation CRSII5_193749University of Lausanne
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Approaches to analyze and cluster T-cell receptor (TCR) repertoires to reflect antigen specificity are critical for the diagnosis and prognosis of immune-related diseases and the development of personalized therapies. Sequence-based approaches showed success but remain restrictive, especially when the amount of experimental data used for the training is scarce. Structure-based approaches which represent powerful alternatives, notably to optimize TCRs affinity toward specific epitopes, show limitations for large-scale predictions. To handle these challenges, TCRpcDist is presented, a 3D-based approach that calculates similarities between TCRs using a metric related to the physico-chemical properties of the loop residues predicted to interact with the epitope. By exploiting private and public datasets and comparing TCRpcDist with competing approaches, it is demonstrated that TCRpcDist can accurately identify groups of TCRs that are likely to bind the same epitopes. Importantly, the ability of TCRpcDist is experimentally validated to determine antigen specificities (neoantigens and tumor-associated antigens) of orphan tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) in cancer patients. TCRpcDist is thus a promising approach to support TCR repertoire analysis and TCR deorphanization for individualized treatments including cancer immunotherapies.

Indexed as

NeoplasmsReceptors, Antigen, T-CellAntigens, NeoplasmHumansLymphocytes, Tumor-InfiltratingAntigens, NeoplasmReceptors, Antigen, T-Celldeorphanizationepitope specificityspecificity predictiont cell receptors (TCRs)tcr clusteringtumor antigens

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PMID39159239
PMCPMC11516110

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