Large-scale template-based structural modeling of T-cell receptors with known antigen specificity reveals complementarity features

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/immunology/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2023.1224969/full" target="_blank" >https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/immunology/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2023.1224969/full</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2023.1224969" target="_blank" >10.3389/fimmu.2023.1224969</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Large-scale template-based structural modeling of T-cell receptors with known antigen specificity reveals complementarity features

Original language description

IntroductionT-cell receptor (TCR) recognition of foreign peptides presented by the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) initiates the adaptive immune response against pathogens. While a large number of TCR sequences specific to different antigenic peptides are known to date, the structural data describing the conformation and contacting residues for TCR-peptide-MHC complexes is relatively limited. In the present study we aim to extend and analyze the set of available structures by performing highly accurate template-based modeling of these complexes using TCR sequences with known specificity.MethodsIdentification of CDR3 sequences and their further clustering, based on available spatial structures, V- and J-genes of corresponding T-cell receptors, and epitopes, was performed using the VDJdb database. Modeling of the selected CDR3 loops was conducted using a stepwise introduction of single amino acid substitutions to the template PDB structures, followed by optimization of the TCR-peptide-MHC contacting interface using the Rosetta package applications. Statistical analysis and recursive feature elimination procedures were carried out on computed energy values and properties of contacting amino acid residues between CDR3 loops and peptides, using R.ResultsUsing the set of 29 complex templates (including a template with SARS-CoV-2 antigen) and 732 specificity records, we built a database of 1585 model structures carrying substitutions in either TCR alpha or TCR beta chains with some models representing the result of different mutation pathways for the same final structure. This database allowed us to analyze features of amino acid contacts in TCR - peptide interfaces that govern antigen recognition preferences and interpret these interactions in terms of physicochemical properties of interacting residues.ConclusionOur results provide a methodology for creating high-quality TCR-peptide-MHC models for antigens of interest that can be utilized to predict TCR specificity.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30102 - Immunology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Frontiers in immunology

ISSN

1664-3224

e-ISSN

1664-3224

Volume of the periodical

14

Issue of the periodical within the volume

Aug

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

1-14

UT code for WoS article

001119019700001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85169501711