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NetAllergen, a random forest model integrating MHC-II presentation propensity for improved allergenicity prediction.

ABSTRACT:

Motivation

Allergy is a pathological immune reaction towards innocuous protein antigens. Although only a narrow fraction of plant or animal proteins induce allergy, atopic disorders affect millions of children and adults and cost billions in healthcare systems worldwide. In silico predictors can aid in the development of more innocuous food sources. Previous allergenicity predictors used sequence similarity, common structural domains, and amino acid physicochemical features. However, these predictors strongly rely on sequence similarity to known allergens and fail to predict protein allergenicity accurately when similarity diminishes.

Results

To overcome these limitations, we collected allergens from AllergenOnline, a curated database of IgE-inducing allergens, carefully removed allergen redundancy with a novel protein partitioning pipeline, and developed a new allergen prediction method, introducing MHC presentation propensity as a novel feature. NetAllergen outperformed a sequence similarity-based BLAST baseline approach, and previous allergenicity predictor AlgPred 2 when similarity to known allergens is limited.

Availability and implementation

The web service NetAllergen and the datasets are available at https://services.healthtech.dtu.dk/services/NetAllergen-1.0/.

SUBMITTER: Li Y

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10603389 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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NetAllergen, a random forest model integrating MHC-II presentation propensity for improved allergenicity prediction.

Li Yuchen Y Sackett Peter Wad PW Nielsen Morten M Barra Carolina C

Bioinformatics advances 20231016 1

<h4>Motivation</h4>Allergy is a pathological immune reaction towards innocuous protein antigens. Although only a narrow fraction of plant or animal proteins induce allergy, atopic disorders affect millions of children and adults and cost billions in healthcare systems worldwide. <i>In silico</i> predictors can aid in the development of more innocuous food sources. Previous allergenicity predictors used sequence similarity, common structural domains, and amino acid physicochemical features. Howev ...[more]

PMID: 37901344

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NetAllergen, a random forest model integrating MHC-II presentation propensity for improved allergenicity prediction.

Motivation

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NetAllergen, a random forest model integrating MHC-II presentation propensity for improved allergenicity prediction.

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