MHC I stabilizing potential of computer-designed octapeptides.

Experimental results are presented for 180 in silico designed octapeptide sequences and their stabilizing effects on the major histocompatibility class I molecule H-2K(b). Peptide sequence design was accomplished by a combination of an ant colony optimization algorithm with artificial neural network...

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Publicado en:Journal of Biomedicine & Biotechnology pp. 9p - 10
Autores principales: Wisniewska JM, Jäger N, Freier A, Losch FO, Wiesmüller KH, Walden P, Wrede P, Schneider G, Hiss JA
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell 2010
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Sumario:Experimental results are presented for 180 in silico designed octapeptide sequences and their stabilizing effects on the major histocompatibility class I molecule H-2K(b). Peptide sequence design was accomplished by a combination of an ant colony optimization algorithm with artificial neural network classifiers. Experimental tests yielded nine H-2K(b) stabilizing and 171 nonstabilizing peptides. 28 among the nonstabilizing octapeptides contain canonical motif residues known to be favorable for MHC I stabilization. For characterization of the area covered by stabilizing and non-stabilizing octapeptides in sequence space, we visualized the distribution of 100,603 octapeptides using a self-organizing map. The experimental results present evidence that the canonical sequence motives of the SYFPEITHI database on their own are insufficient for predicting MHC I protein stabilization.