PMID- 29780384 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20190624 LR - 20220129 IS - 1664-3224 (Print) IS - 1664-3224 (Electronic) IS - 1664-3224 (Linking) VI - 9 DP - 2018 TI - Discrimination Between Human Leukocyte Antigen Class I-Bound and Co-Purified HIV-Derived Peptides in Immunopeptidomics Workflows. PG - 912 LID - 10.3389/fimmu.2018.00912 [doi] LID - 912 AB - Elucidation of novel peptides presented by human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class I alleles by immunopeptidomics constitutes a powerful approach that can inform the rational design of CD8(+) T cell inducing vaccines to control infection with pathogens such as human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) or to combat tumors. Recent advances in the sensitivity of liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry instrumentation have facilitated the discovery of thousands of natural HLA-restricted peptides in a single measurement. However, the extent of contamination of class I-bound peptides identified using HLA immunoprecipitation (IP)-based immunopeptidomics approaches with peptides from other sources has not previously been evaluated in depth. Here, we investigated the specificity of the IP-based immunopeptidomics methodology using HLA class I- or II-deficient cell lines and membrane protein-specific antibody IPs. We demonstrate that the 721.221 B lymphoblastoid cell line, widely regarded to be HLA class Ia-deficient, actually expresses and presents peptides on HLA-C*01:02. Using this cell line and the C8166 (HLA class I- and II-expressing) cell line, we show that some HLA class II-bound peptides were co-purified non-specifically during HLA class I and membrane protein IPs. Furthermore, IPs of "irrelevant" membrane proteins from HIV-1-infected HLA class I- and/or II-expressing cells revealed that unusually long HIV-1-derived peptides previously reported by us and other immunopeptidomics studies as potentially novel CD8(+) T cell epitopes were non-specifically co-isolated, and so constitute a source of contamination in HLA class I IPs. For example, a 16-mer (FLGKIWPSYKGRPGNF), which was detected in all samples studied represents the full p1 segment of the abundant intracellular or virion-associated proteolytically-processed HIV-1 Gag protein. This result is of importance, as these long co-purified HIV-1 Gag peptides may not elicit CD8(+) T cell responses when incorporated into candidate vaccines. These results have wider implications for HLA epitope discovery from abundant or membrane-associated antigens by immunopeptidomics in the context of infectious diseases, cancer, and autoimmunity. FAU - Partridge, Thomas AU - Partridge T AD - Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom. FAU - Nicastri, Annalisa AU - Nicastri A AD - Nuffield Department of Medicine, Target Discovery Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom. FAU - Kliszczak, Anna E AU - Kliszczak AE AD - Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom. FAU - Yindom, Louis-Marie AU - Yindom LM AD - Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom. FAU - Kessler, Benedikt M AU - Kessler BM AD - Nuffield Department of Medicine, Target Discovery Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom. FAU - Ternette, Nicola AU - Ternette N AD - Nuffield Department of Medicine, Target Discovery Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom. AD - The Jenner Institute, Target Discovery Institute Mass Spectrometry Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom. FAU - Borrow, Persephone AU - Borrow P AD - Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom. LA - eng GR - MR/K012037/1/MRC_/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom GR - R01 AI118549/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States GR - MR/K012037/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom GR - MR/N023668/1/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20180427 PL - Switzerland TA - Front Immunol JT - Frontiers in immunology JID - 101560960 RN - 0 (Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte) RN - 0 (Histocompatibility Antigens Class I) RN - 0 (gag Gene Products, Human Immunodeficiency Virus) SB - IM MH - CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes/immunology MH - Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte/immunology MH - HIV-1/*immunology MH - Histocompatibility Antigens Class I/*immunology MH - Humans MH - Immunoprecipitation MH - Mass Spectrometry MH - *Proteomics MH - Workflow MH - gag Gene Products, Human Immunodeficiency Virus/*immunology PMC - PMC5946011 OTO - NOTNLM OT - HIV OT - antigen presentation OT - epitope OT - human leukocyte antigen OT - immunopeptidomics OT - major histocompatibility complex OT - mass spectrometry EDAT- 2018/05/22 06:00 MHDA- 2018/05/22 06:01 PMCR- 2018/01/01 CRDT- 2018/05/22 06:00 PHST- 2018/01/12 00:00 [received] PHST- 2018/04/12 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2018/05/22 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2018/05/22 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2018/05/22 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2018/01/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.3389/fimmu.2018.00912 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Front Immunol. 2018 Apr 27;9:912. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2018.00912. eCollection 2018.