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ArticleFrontiers in immunology2025

NetTCR-struc, a structure driven approach for prediction of TCR-pMHC interactions.

Sebastian N Deleuran, Morten Nielsen

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Article in Frontiers in immunology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Technical review of artificial intelligence in TCR-T therapy.Journal of the National Cancer Center · 2026
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  9. Revised Adaptive Immune Receptor Data in the Immune Epitope Database.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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2 authors.

Sebastian N DeleuranDepartment of Health Technology, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark.
Morten NielsenDepartment of Health Technology, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark.

Funding

IMMUNE EPITOPE AND ANALYSIS PROGRAM: Transplantation of organs, tissues and cells 75N93019C00001 · NIAID · LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY · PI WILSON, STEPHEN · 2019 to 2025
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NIAID NIH HHS 75N93019C00001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Accurate modeling of T cell receptor (TCR)-peptide-major histocompatibility complex (pMHC) interactions is critical for understanding immune recognition. In this study, we present advances in structural modeling of TCR-pMHC class I complexes focusing on improving docking quality scoring and structural model selection using graph neural networks (GNN). We find that AlphaFold-Multimer's confidence score in certain cases correlates poorly with DockQ quality scores, leading to overestimation of model accuracy. Our proposed GNN solution achieves a 25% increase in Spearman's correlation between predicted quality and DockQ (from 0.681 to 0.855) and improves docking candidate ranking. Additionally, the GNN completely avoids selection of failed structures. Additionally, we assess the ability of our models to distinguish binding from non-binding TCR-pMHC interactions based on their predicted quality. Here, we demonstrate that our proposed model, particularly for high-quality structural models, is capable of discriminating between binding and non-binding complexes in a zero-shot setting. However, our findings also underlined that the structural pipeline struggled to generate sufficiently accurate TCR-pMHC models for reliable binding classification, highlighting the need for further improvements in modeling accuracy.

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Major Histocompatibility ComplexPeptidesReceptors, Antigen, T-CellHumansMolecular Docking SimulationNeural Networks, ComputerProtein BindingPeptidesReceptors, Antigen, T-Celldockingmachine learningprotein structure predictionT cell receptorTCR specificity prediction

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PMID40746534
PMCPMC12311634

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