Quantitative online prediction of peptide binding to the major histocompatibility complex

J Mol Graph Model. 2004 Jan;22(3):195-207. doi: 10.1016/S1093-3263(03)00160-8.

Abstract

With its implications for vaccine discovery, the accurate prediction of T cell epitopes is one of the key aspirations of computational vaccinology. We have developed a robust multivariate statistical method, based on partial least squares, for the quantitative prediction of peptide binding to major histocompatibility complexes (MHC), the principal checkpoint on the antigen presentation pathway. As a service to the immunobiology community, we have made a Perl implementation of the method available via a World Wide Web server. We call this server MHCPred. Access to the server is freely available from the URL: http://www.jenner.ac.uk/MHCPred. We have exemplified our method with a model for peptides binding to the common human MHC molecule HLA-B*3501.

MeSH terms

  • Antigen Presentation
  • Binding Sites
  • Databases, Protein
  • Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte / immunology
  • Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte / metabolism
  • Forecasting
  • HLA-B Antigens / immunology
  • HLA-B Antigens / metabolism*
  • Humans
  • Internet
  • Major Histocompatibility Complex*
  • Models, Statistical
  • Multivariate Analysis
  • Peptides / chemistry
  • Peptides / immunology
  • Peptides / metabolism*
  • Protein Binding
  • Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship
  • Software
  • User-Computer Interface

Substances

  • Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte
  • HLA-B Antigens
  • Peptides