PMID- 36526016 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20230816 LR - 20230816 IS - 1872-7492 (Electronic) IS - 0168-1702 (Print) IS - 0168-1702 (Linking) VI - 324 DP - 2023 Jan 15 TI - A systemic review of T-cell epitopes defined from the proteome of SARS-CoV-2. PG - 199024 LID - S0168-1702(22)00353-7 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.virusres.2022.199024 [doi] LID - 199024 AB - Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection remains in a global pandemic, and no eradicative therapy is currently available. Host T cells have been shown to play a crucial role in the antiviral immune protection and pathology in Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients; thus, identifying sufficient T-cell epitopes from the SARS-CoV-2 proteome can contribute greatly to the development of T-cell epitope vaccines and the precise evaluation of host SARS-CoV-2-specific cellular immunity. This review presents a comprehensive map of T-cell epitopes functionally validated from SARS-CoV-2 antigens, the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) supertypes to present these epitopes, and the strategies to screen and identify T-cell epitopes. To the best of our knowledge, a total of 1349 CD8(+) T-cell epitopes and 790 CD4(+) T-cell epitopes have been defined by functional experiments thus far, but most are presented by approximately twenty common HLA supertypes, such as HLA-A0201, A2402, B0702, DR15, DR7 and DR11 molecules, and 74-80% of the T-cell epitopes are derived from S protein and nonstructural protein. These data provide useful insight into the development of vaccines and specific T-cell detection systems. However, the currently defined T-cell epitope repertoire cannot cover the HLA polymorphism of major populations in an indicated geographic region. More research is needed to depict an overall landscape of T-cell epitopes, which covers the overall SARS-CoV-2 proteome and global patients. CI - Copyright (c) 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Jin, Xiaoxiao AU - Jin X AD - Northern Jiangsu People's Hospital, Yangzhou, Jiangsu, China 225002; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical School of Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China 210009. FAU - Liu, Xiaotao AU - Liu X AD - Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical School of Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China 210009. FAU - Shen, Chuanlai AU - Shen C AD - Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical School of Southeast University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China 210009. Electronic address: chuanlaishen@seu.edu.cn. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PT - Systematic Review DEP - 20221213 PL - Netherlands TA - Virus Res JT - Virus research JID - 8410979 RN - 0 (Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte) RN - 0 (Histocompatibility Antigens Class I) RN - 0 (HLA Antigens) RN - 0 (Proteome) RN - 0 (Spike Glycoprotein, Coronavirus) RN - 0 (spike protein, SARS-CoV-2) SB - IM MH - Humans MH - CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes MH - *COVID-19 MH - Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte/genetics MH - Histocompatibility Antigens Class I MH - HLA Antigens/genetics MH - Proteome MH - *SARS-CoV-2/genetics MH - Spike Glycoprotein, Coronavirus PMC - PMC9757803 OTO - NOTNLM OT - HLA restriction OT - SARS-CoV-2 OT - T-cell epitope COIS- Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. EDAT- 2022/12/17 06:00 MHDA- 2023/01/28 06:00 PMCR- 2022/12/13 CRDT- 2022/12/16 19:24 PHST- 2022/11/02 00:00 [received] PHST- 2022/12/10 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2022/12/12 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2022/12/17 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2023/01/28 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2022/12/16 19:24 [entrez] PHST- 2022/12/13 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - S0168-1702(22)00353-7 [pii] AID - 199024 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.virusres.2022.199024 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Virus Res. 2023 Jan 15;324:199024. doi: 10.1016/j.virusres.2022.199024. Epub 2022 Dec 13.