Journal
PROTEIN SCIENCE
Volume 22, Issue 1, Pages 35-46Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/pro.2181
Keywords
TCR; MHC; RosettaDock; ZRANK; protein docking; immune recognition
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- NIH [GM084884]
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES [R01GM084884] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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T cell receptors (TCRs) are immune proteins that specifically bind to antigenic molecules, which are often foreign peptides presented by major histocompatibility complex proteins (pMHCs), playing a key role in the cellular immune response. To advance our understanding and modeling of this dynamic immunological event, we assembled a proteinprotein docking benchmark consisting of 20 structures of crystallized TCR/pMHC complexes for which unbound structures exist for both TCR and pMHC. We used our benchmark to compare predictive performance using several flexible and rigid backbone TCR/pMHC docking protocols. Our flexible TCR docking algorithm, TCRFlexDock, improved predictive success over the fixed backbone protocol, leading to near-native predictions for 80% of the TCR/pMHC cases among the top 10 models, and 100% of the cases in the top 30 models. We then applied TCRFlexDock to predict the two distinct docking modes recently described for a single TCR bound to two different antigens, and tested several protein modeling scoring functions for prediction of TCR/pMHC binding affinities. This algorithm and benchmark should enable future efforts to predict, and design of uncharacterized TCR/pMHC complexes.
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