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Class I pathway Prediction of proteasomal cleavage and TAP binding. Outline. MHC class I epitopes Antigen processing Proteasome Specificity and Polymorphism Prediction methods TAP Binding motif Evolution Immune escape. Peptide generation in the class I pathway. Proteasomal cleavage.
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Class I pathwayPrediction of proteasomal cleavage and TAP binding
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 6-8 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 Arabidopsis thaliana (Didi)- Plant Trichomonas vaginalis (SP)- Bacteria … Constitutive Immuno
Immuno- and Constitutive proteasome specificity Immuno Constitutive P1 P1’ ...LVGPTPVNIIGRNMLTQL..
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
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
More evolution Constitutive proteasome!!!
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 S T R K F L D G N E M T L . . . 0.0101 0.6483 0.9955 0.9984 0.4299 0.2261
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 antigenic 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