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The T cell arm of the adaptive immune system provides the host protection against unknown pathogens by discriminating between host and foreign material. This discriminatory capability is achieved by the creation of a repertoire of cells…

Biological Physics · Physics 2022-01-03 Kevin Ng Chau , Jason T. George , José N. Onuchic , Xingcheng Lin , Herbert Levine

T cells orchestrate adaptive immune responses upon activation. T cell activation requires sufficiently strong binding of T cell receptors on their surface to short peptides derived from foreign proteins bound to protein products of the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 Andrej Kosmrlj , Mehran Kardar , Arup K. Chakraborty

T cells are a critical component of the adaptive immune system, playing a role in infectious disease, autoimmunity, and cancer. T cell function is mediated by the T cell receptor (TCR) protein, a highly diverse receptor targeting specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Marco Garcia Noceda , Matthew T Noakes , Andrew FigPope , Daniel E Mattox , Bryan Howie , Harlan Robins

T cell receptor (TCR) recognition of peptide-MHC (pMHC) complexes is fundamental to adaptive immunity and central to the development of T cell-based immunotherapies. While transformer-based models have shown promise in predicting TCR-pMHC…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Jiarui Li , Zixiang Yin , Zhengming Ding , Samuel J. Landry , Ramgopal R. Mettu

T cell receptors (TCRs) bind foreign or self-peptides attached to major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules, and the strength of this interaction determines T cell activation. Optimizing the ability of T cells to recognize a…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2018-03-23 Hanrong Chen , Arup K. Chakraborty , Mehran Kardar

T cells monitor the health status of cells by identifying foreign peptides displayed on their surface. T-cell receptors (TCRs), which are protein complexes found on the surface of T cells, are able to bind to these peptides. This process is…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-03-07 Ziqi Chen , Martin Renqiang Min , Hongyu Guo , Chao Cheng , Trevor Clancy , Xia Ning

T cell receptor (TCR) recognition of peptide-MHC (pMHC) complexes is a central component of adaptive immunity, with implications for vaccine design, cancer immunotherapy, and autoimmune disease. While recent advances in machine learning…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-09 Jiarui Li , Zixiang Yin , Zhengming Ding , Samuel J. Landry , Ramgopal R. Mettu

Cancer is a complex disease characterized by uncontrolled cell growth and proliferation. T cell receptors (TCRs) are essential proteins for the adaptive immune system, and their specific recognition of antigens plays a crucial role in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Zahra Tayebi , Sarwan Ali , Prakash Chourasia , Taslim Murad , Murray Patterson

T lymphocytes (T cells) orchestrate adaptive immune responses upon activation. T cell activation requires sufficiently strong binding of T cell receptors (TCRs) on their surface to short peptides (p) derived from foreign proteins, which are…

Biological Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 Andrej Kosmrlj , Arup K. Chakraborty , Mehran Kardar , Eugene I. Shakhnovich

Understanding the binding specificity between T-cell receptors (TCRs) and peptide-major histocompatibility complexes (pMHCs) is central to immunotherapy and vaccine development. However, current predictive models struggle with…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-29 Cong Qi , Hanzhang Fang , Siqi jiang , Tianxing Hu , Zhi Wei

The anti-cancer immune response relies on the bindings between T-cell receptors (TCRs) and antigens, which elicits adaptive immunity to eliminate tumor cells. This ability of the immune system to respond to novel various neoantigens arises…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-11 Xing Fang , Chenpeng Yu , Shiye Tian , Hui Liu

It has been verified that only a small fraction of the neoantigens presented by MHC class I molecules on the cell surface can elicit T cells. The limitation can be attributed to the binding specificity of T cell receptor (TCR) to…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-06-24 Yiming Fang , Xuejun Liu , Hui Liu

T-cell receptors can recognize foreign peptides bound to major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class-I proteins, and thus trigger the adaptive immune response. Therefore, identifying peptides that can bind to MHC class-I molecules plays a…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-12-09 Ziqi Chen , Martin Renqiang Min , Xia Ning

A key challenge in molecular biology is to decipher the mapping of protein sequence to function. To perform this mapping requires the identification of sequence features most informative about function. Here, we quantify the amount of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-12-19 James Henderson , Yuta Nagano , Martina Milighetti , Andreas Tiffeau-Mayer

The complex nature of tripartite peptide-MHC-TCR interactions is a critical yet underexplored area in immunogenicity prediction. Traditional studies on TCR-antigen binding have not fully addressed the complex dependencies in triad binding.…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-01-06 Jiahao Ma , Hongzong Li , Jian-Dong Huang , Ye-Fan Hu , Yifan Chen

T cells are central to the adaptive immune response, capable of detecting pathogenic antigens while ignoring healthy tissues with remarkable specificity and sensitivity. Quantitatively understanding how T cell receptors (TCRs) discriminate…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-25 François X. P. Bourassa , Sooraj Achar , Grégoire Altan-Bonnet , Paul François

Recent advancements in immune sequencing and experimental techniques are generating extensive T cell receptor (TCR) repertoire data, enabling the development of models to predict TCR binding specificity. Despite the computational challenges…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-07-24 Anna Weber , Aurélien Pélissier , María Rodríguez Martínez

T-cell receptors (TCRs) play a crucial role in the immune system by recognizing and binding to specific antigens presented by infected or cancerous cells. Understanding the sequence patterns of TCRs is essential for developing targeted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Yicheng Lin , Dandan Zhang , Yun Liu

T-cell receptor (TCR) interactions with antigenic peptides underpin adaptive immunity and are pivotal for personalized immunotherapy and vaccine development. Despite recent progress, computational modeling of TCR-peptide specificity remains…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-07 Yiming Wang , Weiyu Xiao , Jiangbin Zheng , Stan Z. Li

The binding affinity between the T-cell receptors (TCRs) and antigenic peptides mainly determines immunological recognition. It is not a trivial task that T cells identify the digital sequences of peptide amino acids by simply relying on…

Cell Behavior · Quantitative Biology 2024-02-14 Jin Xu , Junghyo Jo
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