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A consensus epitope prediction approach identifies the breadth of murine TCD8+-cell responses to vaccinia virus

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The value of predictive algorithms for identifying CD8+ T (TCD8+)-cell epitopes has not been adequately tested experimentally. Here we demonstrate that conventional bioinformatic methods predict the vast majority of TCD8+-cell epitopes derived from vaccinia virus WR strain (VACV-WR) in the H-2b mouse model. This approach reveals the breadth of T-cell responses to vaccinia, a widely studied murine viral infection model, and may provide a tool for developing comprehensive antigenic maps of any complex pathogen.

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Figure 1: Identification of H-2b–restricted epitopes derived from VACV-WR–infected C57BL/6 mice.
Figure 2: The identified epitopes account for the majority of the TCD8+-cell response to VACV-WR.

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This study was funded by the National Institutes of Health (contract no. HHSN266200400024C, and RO1 grant no. RO1-AI-56268. D.C.T. is the recipient of an National Health and Medical Research Council (Australia) Howard Florey Centenary Fellowship no. 224273.

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    Magdalini Moutaftsi, Bjoern Peters, Valerie Pasquetto, John Sidney, Huynh-Hoa Bui, Howard Grey & Alessandro Sette

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Supplementary information

Supplementary Fig. 1

Using scoring matrices to predict the affinity of peptides to MHC-I molecules. (PDF 23 kb)

Supplementary Fig. 2

Analyzing prediction performance post-hoc. (PDF 73 kb)

Supplementary Table 1

Summary of epitope characteristics. (PDF 52 kb)

Supplementary Table 2

Structural characteristics of antigens recognized. (PDF 45 kb)

Supplementary Table 3

Summary of structural characteristics of VACV-WR antigens recognized by C57BL/6. mice (PDF 37 kb)

Supplementary Data 1

Scoring matrices used for the individual predictions. (PDF 323 kb)

Supplementary Data 2

Peptides from Vaccinia WR predicted to bind MHC molecules. (PDF 317 kb)

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Moutaftsi, M., Peters, B., Pasquetto, V. et al. A consensus epitope prediction approach identifies the breadth of murine TCD8+-cell responses to vaccinia virus. Nat Biotechnol 24, 817–819 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt1215

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