Fundamentals and methods for T‐and B‐cell epitope prediction

JL Sanchez-Trincado… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Adaptive immunity is mediated by T‐and B‐cells, which are immune cells capable of
developing pathogen‐specific memory that confers immunological protection. Memory and …

Challenges in neoantigen-directed therapeutics

L Lybaert, S Lefever, B Fant, E Smits, B De Geest… - Cancer Cell, 2023 - cell.com
A fundamental prerequisite for the efficacy of cancer immunotherapy is the presence of
functional, antigen-specific T cells within the tumor. Neoantigen-directed therapy is a …

Analysis of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein glycan shield reveals implications for immune recognition

OC Grant, D Montgomery, K Ito, RJ Woods - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Here we have generated 3D structures of glycoforms of the spike (S) glycoprotein from
SARS-CoV-2, based on reported 3D structures and glycomics data for the protein produced …

Improved methods for predicting peptide binding affinity to MHC class II molecules

KK Jensen, M Andreatta, P Marcatili, S Buus… - …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Major histocompatibility complex class II (MHC‐II) molecules are expressed on the surface
of professional antigen‐presenting cells where they display peptides to T helper cells, which …

Tumor neoantigens: building a framework for personalized cancer immunotherapy

MM Gubin, MN Artyomov, ER Mardis… - The Journal of …, 2015 - Am Soc Clin Investig
It is now well established that the immune system can recognize developing cancers and
that therapeutic manipulation of immunity can induce tumor regression. The capacity to …

Immunoinformatics and vaccine development: an overview

AN Oli, WO Obialor, MO Ifeanyichukwu… - ImmunoTargets and …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The use of vaccines have resulted in a remarkable improvement in global health. It has
saved several lives, reduced treatment costs and raised the quality of animal and human …

pVAC-Seq: A genome-guided in silico approach to identifying tumor neoantigens

J Hundal, BM Carreno, AA Petti, GP Linette, OL Griffith… - Genome medicine, 2016 - Springer
Cancer immunotherapy has gained significant momentum from recent clinical successes of
checkpoint blockade inhibition. Massively parallel sequence analysis suggests a connection …

T-cell epitope vaccine design by immunoinformatics

A Patronov, I Doytchinova - Open biology, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Vaccination is generally considered to be the most effective method of preventing infectious
diseases. All vaccinations work by presenting a foreign antigen to the immune system in …

The pockets guide to HLA class I molecules

AT Nguyen, C Szeto, S Gras - Biochemical Society Transactions, 2021 - portlandpress.com
Human leukocyte antigens (HLA) are cell-surface proteins that present peptides to T cells.
These peptides are bound within the peptide binding cleft of HLA, and together as a …

A systematic assessment of MHC class II peptide binding predictions and evaluation of a consensus approach

P Wang, J Sidney, C Dow, B Mothé… - PLoS computational …, 2008 - journals.plos.org
The identification of MHC class II restricted peptide epitopes is an important goal in
immunological research. A number of computational tools have been developed for this …