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Class I pathway Prediction of proteasomal cleavage and TAP binidng. Can Keşmir, TBB, Utrecht University, NL & CBS, BioCentrum, DTU. Outline. MHC class I epitopes Antigen processing Proteasome Specificity and Polymorphism Prediction methods TAP Binding motif Evolution Immune escape.
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Class I pathwayPrediction of proteasomal cleavage and TAP binidng Can Keşmir, TBB, Utrecht University, NL & CBS, BioCentrum, DTU
Outline • MHC class I epitopes • Antigen processing • Proteasome • Specificity and Polymorphism • Prediction methods • TAP • Binding motif • Evolution • Immune escape
Proteasomal cleavage • ~20% of all peptide bonds are cleaved • Average peptide length 8-9 amino acids • Not all peptide bonds are equally likely cleaved • Cleavage more likely after hydrophobic than after hydrophilic amino acids
Proteasome specificity • Low polymorphism • Constitutive & Immuno-proteasome • Evolutionary conserved • Stochastic and low specificity • Only 70-80% of the cleavage sites are reproduced in repeated experiments
Proteasome evolution (b1 unit) Human (Hs) - Human Drosophila (Dm) - Fly Bos Taurus (Bota) - Cow Oncorhynchus mykiss (Om) - Fish … Constitutive Immuno
Immuno- and Constitutive proteasome specificity Immuno Constitutive P1 P1’ ...LVGPTPVNIIGRNMLTQL..
Predicting proteasomal cleavage • NetChop • Neural network based method • PaProc • Partially non-linear method (a neural network without hidden neurons????) • SMM (stabilized matrix method) • FragPredict • Based on a statistical analysis of cleavage-determining amino acid motifs present around the scissile bond (i.e. also weight matrix like)
NetChop20S-3.0In vitro digest data from the constitutive proteasome Toes et al., J.exp.med. 2001
NetChop 3.0 Cterm (MHC ligands) • NetChop-3.0 C-term • Trained on class I epitopes • Most epitopes are generated by the immunoproteasome • Predicts the processing specificity LDFVRFMGVMSSCNNPA LVQEKYLEYRQVPDSDP RTQDENPVVHFFKNIVT TPLIPLTIFVGENTGVP LVPVEPDKVEEATEGEN YMLDLQPETTDLYCYEQ PVESMETTMRSPVFTDN ISEYRHYCYSLYGTTLE AAVDAGMAMAGQSPVLR QPKKVKRRLFETRELTD LGEFYNQMMVKAGLNDD GYGGRASDYKSAHKGLK KTKDIVNGLRSVQTFAD LVGFLLLKYRAREPVTK SVDPKNYPKKKMEKRFV SSSSTPLLYPSLALPAP FLYGALLLAEGFYTTGA
TP FP Aroc=0.8 AP AN Aroc=0.5 Sens 1 - spec Prediction performance
Predicting proteasomal cleavage NetChop-3.0 NetChop20S--3.0 • Relative poor predictive performance • For MHC prediction CC~0.92 and AUC~0.95
TAP affinity prediction • Transporter Associated with antigen Processing • Binds peptides 9-18 long • Binding determined mostly by N1-3 and C terminal amino acids
A low matrix entry corresponds to an amino acid well suited for TAP binding TAP binding motif matrix Peters et el., 2003. JI, 171: 1741.
Predicting TAP affinity 9 meric peptides >9 meric ILRGTSFVYV -0.11 + 0.09 - 0.42 - 0.3 = -0.74 Peters et el., 2003. JI, 171: 1741.
Proteasome, TAP and MHC co-evolution • Antigen processing and presentation is highly ineffective • Only 1 in 200 peptides will bind a given MHC complex • If proteasome and TAP do not effectively produce MHC restricted peptides, antigen processing would be a severe bottleneck for antigen recognition
Co-evolution of Proteasome, TAP and MHC • CP-P1: Constitutive proteasome specificity at P1 position • TAP-9: TAP motif at P9 position • MHC-9: Average MHC motif at P9
Co-evolution of Proteasome, TAP and MHC • IP-P1: Immuno proteasome specificity at P1 position • CP-P1: Constitutive proteasome specificity at P1 position • TAP-9: TAP motif at P9 position • MHC-9: Average MHC motif at P9
Co-evolution (continued) Kesmir et al. Immunogenetics, 2003, 55:437
0.0101 0.6483 0.9955 0.9984 0.4299 0.2261 0.0103 0.0265 0.0099 0.0099 0.9590 0.4670 0.9989 Epitope identification • TAP precursor A2 Epitope FLDGNEMTL FLDGNEMTL 2.0100 KFLDGNEMTL -2.5300 RKFLDGNEMTL -3.7400 TRKFLDGNEMTL -2.4400 • Proteasomal cleavage S T R K F L D G N E M T L . . .
>50% need 2-3 amino acids N terminal trimming N terminal trimming
CTL epitopes are presented at the cell surface on TAP deficient cell lines Some CTL epitopes have very poor TAP binding affinity Dominant CTL epitopes can have very poor C terminal cleavage signal Many CTL epitope have strong internal cleavage sites Other important players in the class I pathway Signal peptides Sec61 Diffusion Proteases TAP and proteasome independent presentation
Immune escape • Pathogens evolve under strong selection pressure to avoid CTL recognition • Generate point mutations or insertions/deletions to disturb • Peptide binding to MHC • CTL recognition • Only involve the antigentic peptide region • Antigen processing • Can involve peptide flanking region
Immune escape via antigen processing HIV-1 Nef epitope VPLRPMTY (Milicic et al. JI, 2005, 4618) IP IP CP
Summary • The most important players (MHC, TAP and proteasome) in the MHC class I pathway have co evolved to a share a common C terminal pathway specificity • We can predict (up to a degree) proteasomal cleavage • TAP binding motif characterized in a weight matrix • Binding mostly determined by the N1-3 and C terminal amino acids • Proteasome produces and TAP transports precursor T cell epitopes of length 8-13 amino acids • Epitope trimming in the ER by several amino peptidases (ERAP) • We still do not understand everything • Many more important players are involved in the class I path way