BepiTBR: T-B reciprocity enhances B cell epitope prediction.

ABSTRACT: The ability to predict B cell epitopes is critical for biomedical research and many clinical applications. Investigators have observed the phenomenon of T-B reciprocity, in which candidate B cell epitopes with nearby CD4⁺ T cell epitopes have higher chances of being immunogenic. To our knowledge, existing B cell epitope prediction algorithms have not considered this interesting observation. We developed a linear B cell epitope prediction model, BepiTBR, based on T-B reciprocity. We showed that explicitly including the enrichment of putative CD4⁺ T cell epitopes (predicted HLA class II epitopes) in the model leads to significant enhancement in the prediction of linear B cell epitopes. Curiously, the positive impact on B cell epitope generation is specific to the enrich

SUBMITTER: Zhu J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8803616 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature