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Lefranc MP, Lefranc G. Antibody Sequence and Structure Analyses Using IMGT ®: 30 Years of Immunoinformatics. Methods Mol Biol 2023; 2552:3-59. [PMID: 36346584 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2609-2_1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
Abstract
IMGT®, the international ImMunoGeneTics information system®, http://www.imgt.org , the global reference in immunogenetics and immunoinformatics, was created in 1989 by Marie-Paule Lefranc (Université de Montpellier and CNRS) to manage the huge diversity of the antigen receptors, immunoglobulins (IG) or antibodies, and T cell receptors (TR) of the adaptive immune responses. The founding of IMGT® marked the advent of immunoinformatics, which emerged at the interface between immunogenetics and bioinformatics. IMGT® standardized analysis of the IG, TR, and major histocompatibility (MH) genes and proteins bridges the gap between sequences and three-dimensional (3D) structures, for all jawed vertebrates from fish to humans. This is achieved through the IMGT Scientific chart rules, based on the IMGT-ONTOLOGY axioms, and primarily CLASSIFICATION (IMGT gene and allele nomenclature) and NUMEROTATION (IMGT unique numbering and IMGT Colliers de Perles). IMGT® comprises seven databases (IMGT/LIGM-DB for nucleotide sequences, IMGT/GENE-DB for genes and alleles, etc.), 17 tools (IMGT/V-QUEST, IMGT/JunctionAnalysis, IMGT/HighV-QUEST for NGS, etc.), and more than 20,000 Web resources. In this chapter, the focus is on the tools for amino acid sequences per domain (IMGT/DomainGapAlign and IMGT/Collier-de-Perles), and on the databases for receptors (IMGT/2Dstructure-DB and IMGT/3D-structure-DB) described per receptor, chain, and domain and, for 3D, with contact analysis, paratope, and epitope. The IMGT/mAb-DB is the query interface for monoclonal antibodies (mAb), fusion proteins for immune applications (FPIA), composite proteins for clinical applications (CPCA), and related proteins of interest (RPI) with links to IMGT® 2D and 3D databases and to the World Health Organization (WHO) International Nonproprietary Names (INN) program lists. The chapter includes the human IG allotypes and antibody engineered variants for effector properties used in the description of therapeutical mAb.
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Affiliation(s)
- Marie-Paule Lefranc
- IMGT®, the international ImMunoGeneTics information system®, Laboratoire d'ImmunoGénétique Moléculaire LIGM, Institut de Génétique Humaine IGH, UMR 9002 CNRS, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier cedex 5, France.
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- IMGT®, the international ImMunoGeneTics information system®, Laboratoire d'ImmunoGénétique Moléculaire LIGM, Institut de Génétique Humaine IGH, UMR 9002 CNRS, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier cedex 5, France.
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Knapp B, Dunbar J, Alcala M, Deane CM. Variable Regions of Antibodies and T-Cell Receptors May Not Be Sufficient in Molecular Simulations Investigating Binding. J Chem Theory Comput 2017; 13:3097-3105. [PMID: 28617587 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.7b00080] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Antibodies and T-cell receptors are important proteins of the immune system that share similar structures. Both contain variable and constant regions. Insight into the dynamics of their binding can be provided by computational simulations. For these simulations the constant regions are often removed to save runtime as binding occurs in the variable regions. Here we present the first study to investigate the effect of removing the constant regions from antibodies and T-cell receptors on such simulations. We performed simulations of an antibody/antigen and T-cell receptor/MHC system with and without constant regions using 10 replicas of 100 ns of each of the four setups. We found that simulations without constant regions show significantly different behavior compared to simulations with constant regions. If the constant regions are not included in the simulations alterations in the binding interface hydrogen bonds and even partial unbinding can occur. These results indicate that constant regions should be included in antibody and T-cell receptor simulations for reliable conclusions to be drawn.
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- Bernhard Knapp
- Department of Statistics, Protein Informatics Group, University of Oxford , Oxford OX1 3BD, U.K.,Department of Basic Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, International University of Catalonia , 08195 Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Statistics, Protein Informatics Group, University of Oxford , Oxford OX1 3BD, U.K.,Pharma Research and Early Development, Large Molecule Research, Roche Innovation Center Munich 82377 Penzberg, Germany
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- Department of Basic Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, International University of Catalonia , 08195 Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain
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- Department of Statistics, Protein Informatics Group, University of Oxford , Oxford OX1 3BD, U.K
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Demharter S, Knapp B, Deane CM, Minary P. Modeling Functional Motions of Biological Systems by Customized Natural Moves. Biophys J 2017; 111:710-721. [PMID: 27558715 PMCID: PMC5002067 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2016.06.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2016] [Revised: 06/20/2016] [Accepted: 06/22/2016] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Simulating the functional motions of biomolecular systems requires large computational resources. We introduce a computationally inexpensive protocol for the systematic testing of hypotheses regarding the dynamic behavior of proteins and nucleic acids. The protocol is based on natural move Monte Carlo, a highly efficient conformational sampling method with built-in customization capabilities that allows researchers to design and perform a large number of simulations to investigate functional motions in biological systems. We demonstrate the use of this protocol on both a protein and a DNA case study. Firstly, we investigate the plasticity of a class II major histocompatibility complex in the absence of a bound peptide. Secondly, we study the effects of the epigenetic mark 5-hydroxymethyl on cytosine on the structure of the Dickerson-Drew dodecamer. We show how our customized natural moves protocol can be used to investigate causal relationships of functional motions in biological systems.
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- Samuel Demharter
- Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
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Knapp B, Demharter S, Deane CM, Minary P. Exploring peptide/MHC detachment processes using hierarchical natural move Monte Carlo. Bioinformatics 2016; 32:181-6. [PMID: 26395770 PMCID: PMC4708099 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btv502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2015] [Revised: 08/10/2015] [Accepted: 08/21/2015] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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MOTIVATION The binding between a peptide and a major histocompatibility complex (MHC) is one of the most important processes for the induction of an adaptive immune response. Many algorithms have been developed to predict peptide/MHC (pMHC) binding. However, no approach has yet been able to give structural insight into how peptides detach from the MHC. RESULTS In this study, we used a combination of coarse graining, hierarchical natural move Monte Carlo and stochastic conformational optimization to explore the detachment processes of 32 different peptides from HLA-A*02:01. We performed 100 independent repeats of each stochastic simulation and found that the presence of experimentally known anchor amino acids affects the detachment trajectories of our peptides. Comparison with experimental binding affinity data indicates the reliability of our approach (area under the receiver operating characteristic curve 0.85). We also compared to a 1000 ns molecular dynamics simulation of a non-binding peptide (AAAKTPVIV) and HLA-A*02:01. Even in this simulation, the longest published for pMHC, the peptide does not fully detach. Our approach is orders of magnitude faster and as such allows us to explore pMHC detachment processes in a way not possible with all-atom molecular dynamics simulations. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION The source code is freely available for download at http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/mosaics/. CONTACT bernhard.knapp@stats.ox.ac.uk SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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- Bernhard Knapp
- Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, 1 South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3TG, UK and
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- Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, Wolfson Building, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QD, UK
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- Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, 1 South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3TG, UK and
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- Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, Wolfson Building, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QD, UK
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Knapp B, Deane CM. T-Cell Receptor Binding Affects the Dynamics of the Peptide/MHC-I Complex. J Chem Inf Model 2015; 56:46-53. [PMID: 26633740 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.5b00511] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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The recognition of peptide/MHC by T-cell receptors is one of the most important interactions in the adaptive immune system. A large number of computational studies have investigated the structural dynamics of this interaction. However, to date only limited attention has been paid to differences between the dynamics of peptide/MHC with the T-cell receptor bound and unbound. Here we present the first large-scale molecular dynamics simulation study of this type investigating HLA-B*08:01 in complex with the Epstein-Barr virus peptide FLRGRAYGL and all possible single-point mutations (n = 172). All of the simulations were performed with and without the LC 13 T-cell receptor for a simulation time of 100 ns, yielding 344 simulations and a total simulation time of 34 400 ns. Our study is 2 orders of magnitude larger than the average T-cell receptor/peptide/MHC molecular dynamics simulation study. This data set provides reliable insights into alterations of the peptide/MHC-I dynamics caused by the presence of the T-cell receptor. We found that simulations in the presence of T-cell receptors have more hydrogen bonds between the peptide and MHC, altered flexibility patterns in the MHC helices and the peptide, a lower MHC groove width range, and altered solvent-accessible surface areas. This indicates that without a T-cell receptor the MHC binding groove can open and close, while the presence of the T-cell receptor inhibits these breathing-like motions.
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- Bernhard Knapp
- Department of Statistics, Protein Informatics Group, University of Oxford , Oxford OX1 3SY, United Kingdom
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- Department of Statistics, Protein Informatics Group, University of Oxford , Oxford OX1 3SY, United Kingdom
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Relative Movements of Domains in Large Molecules of the Immune System. J Immunol Res 2015; 2015:210675. [PMID: 26798660 PMCID: PMC4699016 DOI: 10.1155/2015/210675] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2015] [Accepted: 11/26/2015] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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Molecular dynamics was used to simulate large molecules of the immune system (major histocompatibility complex class I, presented epitope, T-cell receptor, and a CD8 coreceptor.) To characterize the relative orientation and movements of domains local coordinate systems (based on principal component analysis) were generated and directional cosines and Euler angles were computed. As a most interesting result, we found that the presence of the coreceptor seems to influence the dynamics within the protein complex, in particular the relative movements of the two α-helices, Gα1 and Gα2.
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Geometry Dynamics of α -Helices in Different Class I Major Histocompatibility Complexes. J Immunol Res 2015; 2015:173593. [PMID: 26649324 PMCID: PMC4651647 DOI: 10.1155/2015/173593] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2015] [Revised: 09/30/2015] [Accepted: 09/30/2015] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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MHC α-helices form the antigen-binding cleft and are of particular interest for immunological reactions. To monitor these helices in molecular dynamics simulations, we applied a parsimonious fragment-fitting method to trace the axes of the α-helices. Each resulting axis was fitted by polynomials in a least-squares sense and the curvature integral was computed. To find the appropriate polynomial degree, the method was tested on two artificially modelled helices, one performing a bending movement and another a hinge movement. We found that second-order polynomials retrieve predefined parameters of helical motion with minimal relative error. From MD simulations we selected those parts of α-helices that were stable and also close to the TCR/MHC interface. We monitored the curvature integral, generated a ruled surface between the two MHC α-helices, and computed interhelical area and surface torsion, as they changed over time. We found that MHC α-helices undergo rapid but small changes in conformation. The curvature integral of helices proved to be a sensitive measure, which was closely related to changes in shape over time as confirmed by RMSD analysis. We speculate that small changes in the conformation of individual MHC α-helices are part of the intrinsic dynamics induced by engagement with the TCR.
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Knapp B, Demharter S, Esmaielbeiki R, Deane CM. Current status and future challenges in T-cell receptor/peptide/MHC molecular dynamics simulations. Brief Bioinform 2015; 16:1035-44. [DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbv005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2014] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Wilman HR, Ebejer JP, Shi J, Deane CM, Knapp B. Crowdsourcing Yields a New Standard for Kinks in Protein Helices. J Chem Inf Model 2014; 54:2585-93. [DOI: 10.1021/ci500403a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Henry R. Wilman
- Department
of Statistics, University of Oxford, 1 South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3TG, U.K
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- Department
of Statistics, University of Oxford, 1 South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3TG, U.K
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- UCB Celltech, a branch of UCB Pharma S. A., 208 Bath Road, Slough SL1 3WE, U.K
- Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, China
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- Department
of Statistics, University of Oxford, 1 South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3TG, U.K
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- Department
of Statistics, University of Oxford, 1 South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3TG, U.K
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Geometric analysis of alloreactive HLA α-helices. BIOMED RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2014; 2014:943186. [PMID: 25028669 PMCID: PMC4083606 DOI: 10.1155/2014/943186] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2014] [Accepted: 05/21/2014] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Molecular dynamics (MD) is a valuable tool for the investigation of functional elements in biomolecules, providing information on dynamic properties and processes. Previous work by our group has characterized static geometric properties of the two MHC α-helices comprising the peptide binding region recognized by T cells. We build upon this work and used several spline models to approximate the overall shape of MHC α-helices. We applied this technique to a series of MD simulations of alloreactive MHC molecules that allowed us to capture the dynamics of MHC α-helices' steric configurations. Here, we discuss the variability of spline models underlying the geometric analysis with varying polynomial degrees of the splines.
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Lefranc MP. Immunoglobulin and T Cell Receptor Genes: IMGT(®) and the Birth and Rise of Immunoinformatics. Front Immunol 2014; 5:22. [PMID: 24600447 PMCID: PMC3913909 DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2014.00022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 165] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2013] [Accepted: 01/15/2014] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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IMGT(®), the international ImMunoGeneTics information system(®) (1), (CNRS and Université Montpellier 2) is the global reference in immunogenetics and immunoinformatics. By its creation in 1989, IMGT(®) marked the advent of immunoinformatics, which emerged at the interface between immunogenetics and bioinformatics. IMGT(®) is specialized in the immunoglobulins (IG) or antibodies, T cell receptors (TR), major histocompatibility (MH), and proteins of the IgSF and MhSF superfamilies. IMGT(®) has been built on the IMGT-ONTOLOGY axioms and concepts, which bridged the gap between genes, sequences, and three-dimensional (3D) structures. The concepts include the IMGT(®) standardized keywords (concepts of identification), IMGT(®) standardized labels (concepts of description), IMGT(®) standardized nomenclature (concepts of classification), IMGT unique numbering, and IMGT Colliers de Perles (concepts of numerotation). IMGT(®) comprises seven databases, 15,000 pages of web resources, and 17 tools, and provides a high-quality and integrated system for the analysis of the genomic and expressed IG and TR repertoire of the adaptive immune responses. Tools and databases are used in basic, veterinary, and medical research, in clinical applications (mutation analysis in leukemia and lymphoma) and in antibody engineering and humanization. They include, for example IMGT/V-QUEST and IMGT/JunctionAnalysis for nucleotide sequence analysis and their high-throughput version IMGT/HighV-QUEST for next-generation sequencing (500,000 sequences per batch), IMGT/DomainGapAlign for amino acid sequence analysis of IG and TR variable and constant domains and of MH groove domains, IMGT/3Dstructure-DB for 3D structures, contact analysis and paratope/epitope interactions of IG/antigen and TR/peptide-MH complexes and IMGT/mAb-DB interface for therapeutic antibodies and fusion proteins for immune applications (FPIA).
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Affiliation(s)
- Marie-Paule Lefranc
- The International ImMunoGenetics Information System (IMGT), Laboratoire d’ImmunoGénétique Moléculaire (LIGM), Institut de Génétique Humaine, UPR CNRS, Université Montpellier 2, Montpellier, France
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