Comparison of two quantitative matrices for in silico prediction of major histocompatibility complex class I peptide loading

Authors

  • Adrian Sabariaga Remigio ⋅ PH School of Science, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia
  • Ruby Anne King ⋅ PH Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of the Philippines Manila
  • Paul Gabriel Escalera Lerona ⋅ PH Department of Chemical Engineering, University of the Philippines Diliman
  • Dominic Albao ⋅ PH National Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of the Philippines Diliman
  • Denise Noelle Bascos ⋅ PH National Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of the Philippines Diliman

Abstract

Epitope prediction using in silico methods serves as an efficient and cost-effective method for vaccine design. A mechanism by which vaccines elicit immune responses involves the activation of cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL), which requires that peptide epitopes are sufficiently loaded onto major histocompatibility complex (MHC) Class I molecules. A major consideration included physical interactions between the amino acids comprising the peptide epitope and the specific MHC Class I protein. In this paper, the predictive performances of two published quantitative matrices, namely, the re-scaled Miyazawa-Jernigan (MJ) or Betancourt-Thirumalai (BT), and quasi-chemical pair correlation (QC), were evaluated, showing differential allele-specific predictive performance for loading. In addition, since QC matrix has a higher average AUC than BT matrix, we recommend the use of QC matrix as a scoring function for peptide loading classification and regression algorithms.

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Article ID

SPP-2020-2A-03

Section

Complex Systems and Data Analytics (Short Presentations)

Published

2020-10-19

How to Cite

[1]
AS Remigio, RA King, PGE Lerona, D Albao, and DN Bascos, Comparison of two quantitative matrices for in silico prediction of major histocompatibility complex class I peptide loading, Proceedings of the Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas 38, SPP-2020-2A-03 (2020). URL: https://proceedings.spp-online.org/article/view/SPP-2020-2A-03.