Can AlphaFold's breakthrough in protein structure help decode the fundamental principles of adaptive cellular immunity?

B McMaster, C Thorpe, G Ogg, CM Deane, H Koohy - Nature Methods, 2024 - nature.com
T cells are essential immune cells responsible for identifying and eliminating pathogens.
Through interactions between their T-cell antigen receptors (TCRs) and antigens presented …

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 …

Quantifiable predictive features define epitope-specific T cell receptor repertoires

P Dash, AJ Fiore-Gartland, T Hertz, GC Wang… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
T cells are defined by a heterodimeric surface receptor, the T cell receptor (TCR), that
mediates recognition of pathogen-associated epitopes through interactions with peptide and …

McPAS-TCR: a manually curated catalogue of pathology-associated T cell receptor sequences

N Tickotsky, T Sagiv, J Prilusky, E Shifrut… - …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Motivation While growing numbers of T cell receptor (TCR) repertoires are being mapped by
high-throughput sequencing, existing methods do not allow for computationally connecting a …

VDJtools: unifying post-analysis of T cell receptor repertoires

M Shugay, DV Bagaev, MA Turchaninova… - PLoS computational …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Despite the growing number of immune repertoire sequencing studies, the field still lacks
software for analysis and comprehension of this high-dimensional data. Here we report …

Overview of methodologies for T-cell receptor repertoire analysis

E Rosati, CM Dowds, E Liaskou, EKK Henriksen… - BMC …, 2017 - Springer
Background The T-cell receptor (TCR), located on the surface of T cells, is responsible for
the recognition of the antigen-major histocompatibility complex, leading to the initiation of an …

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 …

Identification and characterization of a SARS-CoV-2 specific CD8+ T cell response with immunodominant features

A Gangaev, SLC Ketelaars, OI Isaeva… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The COVID-19 pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 is a continuous challenge worldwide, and
there is an urgent need to map the landscape of immunogenic and immunodominant …

A compact vocabulary of paratope-epitope interactions enables predictability of antibody-antigen binding

R Akbar, PA Robert, M Pavlović, JR Jeliazkov… - Cell Reports, 2021 - cell.com
Antibody-antigen binding relies on the specific interaction of amino acids at the paratope-
epitope interface. The predictability of antibody-antigen binding is a prerequisite for de novo …

Normalization of obesity-associated insulin resistance through immunotherapy

S Winer, Y Chan, G Paltser, D Truong, H Tsui… - Nature medicine, 2009 - nature.com
Obesity and its associated metabolic syndromes represent a growing global challenge, yet
mechanistic understanding of this pathology and current therapeutics are unsatisfactory. We …