PMID- 36060059 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20230228 IS - 2589-0042 (Electronic) IS - 2589-0042 (Linking) VI - 25 IP - 9 DP - 2022 Sep 16 TI - The role of antigen expression in shaping the repertoire of HLA presented ligands. PG - 104975 LID - 10.1016/j.isci.2022.104975 [doi] LID - 104975 AB - Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) presentation of peptides is a prerequisite of T cell immune activation. The understanding of the rules defining this event has large implications for our knowledge of basic immunology and for the rational design of immuno-therapeutics and vaccines. Historically, most of the available prediction methods have been solely focused on the information related to antigen processing and presentation. Recent work has, however, demonstrated that method performance can be boosted by integrating information related to antigen abundance. Here we expand on these later findings and develop an extended version of NetMHCpan, called NetMHCpanExp, integrating information on antigen abundance from RNA-Seq experiments. In line with earlier works, the model demonstrates improved performance for both HLA ligand and cancer neoantigen epitope prediction. Optimal results are obtained by use of sample-specific abundance information but also reference datasets can be applied with a limited performance drop. The developed tool is available at https://services.healthtech.dtu.dk/service.php?NetMHCpanExp-1.0. CI - (c) 2022 The Author(s). FAU - Garcia Alvarez, Heli M AU - Garcia Alvarez HM AD - Instituto de Investigaciones Biotecnologicas, Universidad Nacional de San Martin, CP 1650 San Martin, Argentina. FAU - Kosaloglu-Yalcin, Zeynep AU - Kosaloglu-Yalcin Z AD - Center for Infectious Disease and Vaccine Research, La Jolla Institute for Immunology, La Jolla, 92037 CA, USA. FAU - Peters, Bjoern AU - Peters B AD - Center for Infectious Disease and Vaccine Research, La Jolla Institute for Immunology, La Jolla, 92037 CA, USA. AD - Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, 92093 CA, USA. FAU - Nielsen, Morten AU - Nielsen M AD - Instituto de Investigaciones Biotecnologicas, Universidad Nacional de San Martin, CP 1650 San Martin, Argentina. AD - Department of Health Technology, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Lyngby, Denmark. LA - eng GR - U24 CA248138/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article DEP - 20220817 PL - United States TA - iScience JT - iScience JID - 101724038 PMC - PMC9437844 OTO - NOTNLM OT - Immunology OT - biocomputational method OT - biological sciences tools OT - transcriptomics COIS- The authors declare no competing interests. EDAT- 2022/09/06 06:00 MHDA- 2022/09/06 06:01 PMCR- 2022/08/17 CRDT- 2022/09/05 03:48 PHST- 2022/04/16 00:00 [received] PHST- 2022/07/21 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2022/08/14 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2022/09/05 03:48 [entrez] PHST- 2022/09/06 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/09/06 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2022/08/17 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - S2589-0042(22)01247-0 [pii] AID - 104975 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.isci.2022.104975 [doi] PST - epublish SO - iScience. 2022 Aug 17;25(9):104975. doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2022.104975. eCollection 2022 Sep 16.