Improving B-cell epitope prediction and its application to global antibody-antigen docking.
Bioinformatics
; 30(16): 2288-94, 2014 Aug 15.
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| ID: mdl-24753488
ABSTRACT
MOTIVATION Antibodies are currently the most important class of biopharmaceuticals. Development of such antibody-based drugs depends on costly and time-consuming screening campaigns. Computational techniques such as antibody-antigen docking hold the potential to facilitate the screening process by rapidly providing a list of initial poses that approximate the native complex. RESULTS:
We have developed a new method to identify the epitope region on the antigen, given the structures of the antibody and the antigen-EpiPred. The method combines conformational matching of the antibody-antigen structures and a specific antibody-antigen score. We have tested the method on both a large non-redundant set of antibody-antigen complexes and on homology models of the antibodies and/or the unbound antigen structure. On a non-redundant test set, our epitope prediction method achieves 44% recall at 14% precision against 23% recall at 14% precision for a background random distribution. We use our epitope predictions to rescore the global docking results of two rigid-body docking algorithms ZDOCK and ClusPro. In both cases including our epitope, prediction increases the number of near-native poses found among the top decoys. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION Our software is available from http//www.stats.ox.ac.uk/research/proteins/resources.
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01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Epitopos de Linfócito B
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Simulação de Acoplamento Molecular
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Complexo Antígeno-Anticorpo
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Bioinformatics
Assunto da revista:
INFORMATICA MEDICA
Ano de publicação:
2014
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
China