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On the viability of unsupervised T-cell receptor sequence clustering for epitope preference
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Abstract
Motivation The T-cell receptor (TCR) is responsible for recognizing epitopes presented on cell surfaces. Linking TCR sequences to their ability to target specific epitopes is currently an unsolved problem, yet one of great interest. Indeed, it is currently unknown how dissimilar TCR sequences can be before they no longer bind the same epitope. This question is confounded by the fact that there are many ways to define the similarity between two TCR sequences. Here we investigate both issues in the context of TCR sequence unsupervised clustering. Results We provide an overview of the performance of various distance metrics on two large independent data sets with 412 and 2835 TCR sequences respectively. Our results confirm the presence of structural distinct TCR groups that target identical epitopes. In addition, we put forward several recommendations to perform unsupervised T-cell receptor sequence clustering.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Bioinformatics. - Oxford, 1998, currens
Publication
Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2019
ISSN
1367-4803 [print]
1367-4811 [online]
DOI
10.1093/BIOINFORMATICS/BTY821
Volume/pages
35 :9 (2019) , p. 1461-1468
ISI
000469491000004
Pubmed ID
30247624
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UAntwerpen
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Predicting Immune responses by Modeling immunoSequencing data (PIMS).
An interdisciplinary study on the role of the HLA genes and T-cell diversity as risk factors for herpes zoster.
Efficient mining for unexpected patterns in complex biological data.
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Publications with a UAntwerp address
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