Pelaez-Prestel HF, Fernandez SA, Ballesteros-Sanabria L, Reche PA. Prediction of TAP Transport of Peptides with Variable Length Using
TAPREG.
Methods Mol Biol 2023;
2673:227-235. [PMID:
37258918 DOI:
10.1007/978-1-0716-3239-0_16]
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Abstract
CD8 T cells recognize short peptides, more frequently of nine residues, presented by class I major histocompatibility complex (MHC I) molecules in the cell surface of antigen-presenting cells. These epitope peptides are loaded onto MHC I molecules in the endoplasmic reticulum, where they are shuttled from the cytosol by the transporter associated with antigen processing (TAP) as such or as N-terminal extended precursors of up to 16 residues. In this chapter, we describe the use of TAPREG, a tool for predicting TAP binding affinity that has been enhanced to identify potential CD8 T cell epitope precursors transported by TAP. TAPREG is available for free public use at http://imed.med.ucm.es/Tools/tapreg/ .
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