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HLAsupE: an integrated database of HLA supertype-specific epitopes to aid in the development of vaccines with broad coverage of the human population
BACKGROUND: Promiscuous T-cell epitopes that can be presented by multiple human leukocyte antigens (HLAs) are prime targets for vaccine and immunotherapy development because they are effective in a high proportion of the human population. Although there are a number of epitope databases currently av...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4910211/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27307005 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12865-016-0156-x |
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author | Wang, Shufeng Guo, Ling Liu, Dong Liu, Wei Wu, Yuzhang |
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description | BACKGROUND: Promiscuous T-cell epitopes that can be presented by multiple human leukocyte antigens (HLAs) are prime targets for vaccine and immunotherapy development because they are effective in a high proportion of the human population. Although there are a number of epitope databases currently available online, the epitope data in these databases were annotated using specific MHC restrictions, and none of these databases was specifically designed for retrieving data on promiscuous epitopes. DESCRIPTION: HLAsupE is an integrated database of HLA supertype-specific epitopes (promiscuous T-cell epitopes in the context of HLA supertypes). The source data for the T-cell activities and HLA-binding capacities of peptides with a specific HLA restriction were extracted from public epitope databases. After a manual curation, these allele-specific data were integrated into supertype-specific datasets based on the defined supertypes and corresponding alleles. Each supertype-specific peptide in HLAsupE is annotated in terms of its cross-reactivity to HLA molecules within the same supertype. Promiscuous peptides that can be presented by multiple HLA molecules across multiple HLA supertypes were also included in this database. Several web-based tools are provided to access and download the data. CONCLUSIONS: HLAsupE is the first database of promiscuous T cell epitopes that is organized based on the HLA supertypes. The main advantage of this database is the ability to search for promiscuous T-cell epitopes based on the cross-reactivity to specific alleles or supertypes. HLAsupE will be a valuable resource for the development of epitope-based vaccines and immunotherapies with broad coverage of human population. |
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spelling | pubmed-49102112016-06-17 HLAsupE: an integrated database of HLA supertype-specific epitopes to aid in the development of vaccines with broad coverage of the human population Wang, Shufeng Guo, Ling Liu, Dong Liu, Wei Wu, Yuzhang BMC Immunol Database BACKGROUND: Promiscuous T-cell epitopes that can be presented by multiple human leukocyte antigens (HLAs) are prime targets for vaccine and immunotherapy development because they are effective in a high proportion of the human population. Although there are a number of epitope databases currently available online, the epitope data in these databases were annotated using specific MHC restrictions, and none of these databases was specifically designed for retrieving data on promiscuous epitopes. DESCRIPTION: HLAsupE is an integrated database of HLA supertype-specific epitopes (promiscuous T-cell epitopes in the context of HLA supertypes). The source data for the T-cell activities and HLA-binding capacities of peptides with a specific HLA restriction were extracted from public epitope databases. After a manual curation, these allele-specific data were integrated into supertype-specific datasets based on the defined supertypes and corresponding alleles. Each supertype-specific peptide in HLAsupE is annotated in terms of its cross-reactivity to HLA molecules within the same supertype. Promiscuous peptides that can be presented by multiple HLA molecules across multiple HLA supertypes were also included in this database. Several web-based tools are provided to access and download the data. CONCLUSIONS: HLAsupE is the first database of promiscuous T cell epitopes that is organized based on the HLA supertypes. The main advantage of this database is the ability to search for promiscuous T-cell epitopes based on the cross-reactivity to specific alleles or supertypes. HLAsupE will be a valuable resource for the development of epitope-based vaccines and immunotherapies with broad coverage of human population. BioMed Central 2016-06-16 /pmc/articles/PMC4910211/ /pubmed/27307005 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12865-016-0156-x Text en © The Author(s). 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Database Wang, Shufeng Guo, Ling Liu, Dong Liu, Wei Wu, Yuzhang HLAsupE: an integrated database of HLA supertype-specific epitopes to aid in the development of vaccines with broad coverage of the human population |
title | HLAsupE: an integrated database of HLA supertype-specific epitopes to aid in the development of vaccines with broad coverage of the human population |
title_full | HLAsupE: an integrated database of HLA supertype-specific epitopes to aid in the development of vaccines with broad coverage of the human population |
title_fullStr | HLAsupE: an integrated database of HLA supertype-specific epitopes to aid in the development of vaccines with broad coverage of the human population |
title_full_unstemmed | HLAsupE: an integrated database of HLA supertype-specific epitopes to aid in the development of vaccines with broad coverage of the human population |
title_short | HLAsupE: an integrated database of HLA supertype-specific epitopes to aid in the development of vaccines with broad coverage of the human population |
title_sort | hlasupe: an integrated database of hla supertype-specific epitopes to aid in the development of vaccines with broad coverage of the human population |
topic | Database |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4910211/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27307005 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12865-016-0156-x |
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