PMID- 35386688 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20220408 LR - 20220703 IS - 1664-3224 (Electronic) IS - 1664-3224 (Linking) VI - 13 DP - 2022 TI - Unsupervised Mining of HLA-I Peptidomes Reveals New Binding Motifs and Potential False Positives in the Community Database. PG - 847756 LID - 10.3389/fimmu.2022.847756 [doi] LID - 847756 AB - Modern vaccine designs and studies of human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-mediated immune responses rely heavily on the knowledge of HLA allele-specific binding motifs and computational prediction of HLA-peptide binding affinity. Breakthroughs in HLA peptidomics have considerably expanded the databases of natural HLA ligands and enabled detailed characterizations of HLA-peptide binding specificity. However, cautions must be made when analyzing HLA peptidomics data because identified peptides may be contaminants in mass spectrometry or may weakly bind to the HLA molecules. Here, a hybrid de novo peptide sequencing approach was applied to large-scale mono-allelic HLA peptidomics datasets to uncover new ligands and refine current knowledge of HLA binding motifs. Up to 12-40% of the peptidomics data were low-binding affinity peptides with an arginine or a lysine at the C-terminus and likely to be tryptic peptide contaminants. Thousands of these peptides have been reported in a community database as legitimate ligands and might be erroneously used for training prediction models. Furthermore, unsupervised clustering of identified ligands revealed additional binding motifs for several HLA class I alleles and effectively isolated outliers that were experimentally confirmed to be false positives. Overall, our findings expanded the knowledge of HLA binding specificity and advocated for more rigorous interpretation of HLA peptidomics data that will ensure the high validity of community HLA ligandome databases. CI - Copyright (c) 2022 Sricharoensuk, Boonchalermvichien, Muanwien, Somparn, Pisitkun and Sriswasdi. FAU - Sricharoensuk, Chatchapon AU - Sricharoensuk C AD - Center of Excellence in Computational Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. FAU - Boonchalermvichien, Tanupat AU - Boonchalermvichien T AD - Center of Excellence in Computational Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. FAU - Muanwien, Phijitra AU - Muanwien P AD - Medical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. FAU - Somparn, Poorichaya AU - Somparn P AD - Center of Excellence in Systems Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. FAU - Pisitkun, Trairak AU - Pisitkun T AD - Center of Excellence in Systems Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. AD - Research Affairs, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. FAU - Sriswasdi, Sira AU - Sriswasdi S AD - Center of Excellence in Computational Molecular Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. AD - Research Affairs, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. LA - eng SI - figshare/10.6084/m9.figshare.16025226 SI - figshare/10.6084/m9.figshare.19207386 PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20220321 PL - Switzerland TA - Front Immunol JT - Frontiers in immunology JID - 101560960 RN - 0 (HLA Antigens) RN - 0 (Histocompatibility Antigens Class I) RN - 0 (Histocompatibility Antigens Class II) RN - 0 (Ligands) RN - 0 (Peptides) SB - IM MH - *HLA Antigens/genetics/metabolism MH - *Histocompatibility Antigens Class I MH - Histocompatibility Antigens Class II/metabolism MH - Humans MH - Ligands MH - Peptides MH - Protein Binding PMC - PMC8977642 OTO - NOTNLM OT - De novo peptide sequencing OT - HLA binding motifs OT - HLA class I OT - HLA peptidomics OT - IEDB COIS- The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. EDAT- 2022/04/08 06:00 MHDA- 2022/04/09 06:00 PMCR- 2022/01/01 CRDT- 2022/04/07 05:16 PHST- 2022/01/03 00:00 [received] PHST- 2022/02/25 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2022/04/07 05:16 [entrez] PHST- 2022/04/08 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/04/09 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2022/01/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.3389/fimmu.2022.847756 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Front Immunol. 2022 Mar 21;13:847756. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2022.847756. eCollection 2022.