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HLA-I peptidomics od Meningioma tissues - Peptide length distribution and multiple specificity in naturally presented HLA-I ligands

ABSTRACT: HLA-I molecules bind short peptides and present them to CD8+ T cells for TCR recognition. The length of HLA-I ligands typically ranges from 8 to 12 amino acids, but high variability is observed between different alleles. Here we used recent HLA peptidomics data to analyze in an unbiased way peptide length distributions over 85 different HLA-I alleles. Our results revealed clear clustering of HLA-I alleles with distinct peptide length distributions, which enabled us to unravel some of the molecular basis of peptide length distributions and predict peptide length distributions based on HLA-I sequences only. We further took advantage of our collection of curated HLA peptidomics studies to investigate multiple specificity in HLA-I molecules and validated these observations with binding assays. Explicitly modeling peptide length distributions and multiple specificity significantly improved predictions of naturally presented HLA-I ligands, as demonstrated in an independent benchmarking based on ten newly generated HLA peptidomics datasets from meningioma samples.

INSTRUMENT(S): Q Exactive

ORGANISM(S): Homo Sapiens (human)

TISSUE(S): Meningioma Cell

DISEASE(S): Meningioma

SUBMITTER: Michal Bassani-Sternberg

LAB HEAD: Michal Bassani-Sternberg

PROVIDER: PXD009925 | Pride | 2019-07-31

REPOSITORIES: Pride

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