HLA-EpiCheck : A B-cell epitope prediction tool on HLA antigens using molecular dynamics simulation data
Résumé
In the context of organ transplantation, recipient’s antibodies against donor-specific HLA antigens are the main reason for transplant loss.
The prediction of B-cell (antibody) epitopes on HLA antigens is therefore a key challenge on the way to improving the matching step
between donor and recipient from a structural point of view. Here, we present HLA-EpiCheck, a B-cell epitope prediction tool that relies on
an unprecedented dataset of short Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations of 207 HLA antigens. We use hydrophobic properties, electrostatic
charges, flexibility and solvent accessibility as descriptors calculated on patches sampled from MD trajectories. Then, we train an Extremely
Randomized Trees machine learning model. This model outperforms the state-of-the-art DiscoTope 3.0 tool for B-cell epitope prediction
on HLA antigens.
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