T cell antigen receptor recognition of antigen-presenting molecules

J Rossjohn, S Gras, JJ Miles, SJ Turner… - Annual review of …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
The Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) locus encodes classical MHC class I and MHC
class II molecules and nonclassical MHC-I molecules. The architecture of these molecules is …

TCR recognition of peptide–MHC-I: Rule makers and breakers

C Szeto, CA Lobos, AT Nguyen, S Gras - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
T cells are a critical part of the adaptive immune system that are able to distinguish between
healthy and unhealthy cells. Upon recognition of protein fragments (peptides), activated T …

NetTCR-2.0 enables accurate prediction of TCR-peptide binding by using paired TCRα and β sequence data

A Montemurro, V Schuster, HR Povlsen… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
Prediction of T-cell receptor (TCR) interactions with MHC-peptide complexes remains highly
challenging. This challenge is primarily due to three dominant factors: data accuracy, data …

Understanding the drivers of MHC restriction of T cell receptors

NL La Gruta, S Gras, SR Daley, PG Thomas… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
T cell discrimination of self and non-self is predicated on αβ T cell receptor (TCR) co-
recognition of peptides presented by MHC molecules. Over the past 20 years, structurally …

Why must T cells be cross-reactive?

AK Sewell - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2012 - nature.com
Clonal selection theory proposed that individual T cells are specific for a single peptide–
MHC antigen. However, the repertoire of αβ T cell receptors (TCRs) is dwarfed by the vast …

On TCR binding predictors failing to generalize to unseen peptides

F Grazioli, A Mösch, P Machart, K Li… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Several recent studies investigate TCR-peptide/-pMHC binding prediction using machine
learning or deep learning approaches. Many of these methods achieve impressive results …

Canonical T cell receptor docking on peptide–MHC is essential for T cell signaling

P Zareie, C Szeto, C Farenc, SD Gunasinghe… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION T cell receptor (TCR) recognition of peptide–major histocompatibility
complexes (pMHCs) is one of the most diverse receptor–ligand interactions in biology …

Decision checkpoints in the thymus

AC Carpenter, R Bosselut - Nature immunology, 2010 - nature.com
The development of T cells in the thymus involves several differentiation and proliferation
events, during which hematopoietic precursors give rise to T cells ready to respond to …

Structural biology of the T-cell receptor: insights into receptor assembly, ligand recognition, and initiation of signaling

KW Wucherpfennig, E Gagnon… - Cold Spring …, 2010 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
The T-cell receptor (TCR)-CD3 complex serves as a central paradigm for general principles
of receptor assembly, ligand recognition, and signaling in the immune system. There is no …

T cell receptor signaling is limited by docking geometry to peptide-major histocompatibility complex

JJ Adams, S Narayanan, B Liu, ME Birnbaum… - Immunity, 2011 - cell.com
T cell receptor (TCR) engagement of peptide-major histocompatibility complex (pMHC) is
essential to adaptive immunity, but it is unknown whether TCR signaling responses are …