Drost, F. ; Dorigatti, E. ; Straub, A.* ; Hilgendorf, P.* ; Wagner, K.I.* ; Heyer, K.* ; López Montes, M.* ; Bischl, B.* ; Busch, D.H.* ; Schober, K.* ; Schubert, B.
Predicting T cell receptor functionality against mutant epitopes.
Cell Genom. 4:100634 (2024)
Cancer cells and pathogens can evade T cell receptors (TCRs) via mutations in immunogenic epitopes. TCR cross-reactivity (i.e., recognition of multiple epitopes with sequence similarities) can counteract such escape but may cause severe side effects in cell-based immunotherapies through targeting self-antigens. To predict the effect of epitope point mutations on T cell functionality, we here present the random forest-based model Predicting T Cell Epitope-Specific Activation against Mutant Versions (P-TEAM). P-TEAM was trained and tested on three datasets with TCR responses to single-amino-acid mutations of the model epitope SIINFEKL, the tumor neo-epitope VPSVWRSSL, and the human cytomegalovirus antigen NLVPMVATV, totaling 9,690 unique TCR-epitope interactions. P-TEAM was able to accurately classify T cell reactivities and quantitatively predict T cell functionalities for unobserved single-point mutations and unseen TCRs. Overall, P-TEAM provides an effective computational tool to study T cell responses against mutated epitopes.
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T Cell Receptor ; Tcr-epitope Prediction ; Active Learning ; Cross-reactivity ; Deep Mutational Scan ; Epitope ; Machine Learning ; Mutation; Peptide; Deconvolution; Accuracy; Complex
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2024
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2666-979X
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30205 - Bioengineering and Digital Health
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Else Kroner-Stiftung
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2024-10-01