Quantitative prediction of peptide binding to HLA-DP1 protein

IEEE/ACM Trans Comput Biol Bioinform. 2013 May-Jun;10(3):811-5. doi: 10.1109/TCBB.2013.78.

Abstract

The exogenous proteins are processed by the host antigen-processing cells. Peptidic fragments of them are presented on the cell surface bound to the major hystocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules class II and recognized by the CD4+ T lymphocytes. The MHC binding is considered as the crucial prerequisite for T-cell recognition. Only peptides able to form stable complexes with the MHC proteins are recognized by the T-cells. These peptides are known as T-cell epitopes. All T-cell epitopes are MHC binders, but not all MHC binders are T-cell epitopes. The T-cell epitope prediction is one of the main priorities of immunoinformatics. In the present study, three chemometric techniques are combined to derive a model for in silico prediction of peptide binding to the human MHC class II protein HLA-DP1. The structures of a set of known peptide binders are described by amino acid z-descriptors. Data are processed by an iterative self-consisted algorithm using the method of partial least squares, and a quantitative matrix (QM) for peptide binding prediction to HLA-DP1 is derived. The QM is validated by two sets of proteins and showed an average accuracy of 86 percent.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Computational Biology
  • HLA-DP beta-Chains / chemistry*
  • HLA-DP beta-Chains / metabolism*
  • Humans
  • Models, Molecular*
  • Models, Statistical*
  • Peptides / chemistry*
  • Peptides / metabolism*
  • Protein Binding
  • Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship
  • Reproducibility of Results

Substances

  • HLA-DP beta-Chains
  • HLA-DPw1 antigen
  • Peptides