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  • Training of epitope-TCR pre...
    Flumens, Donovan; Gielis, Sofie; Bartholomeus, Esther; Campillo-Davo, Diana; van der Heijden, Sanne; Versteven, Maarten; De Reu, Hans; Smits, Evelien; Ogunjimi, Benson; Laukens, Kris; Meysman, Pieter; Lion, Eva

    Methods in cell biology, 2024, Letnik: 183
    Journal Article

    Discovery of epitope-specific T-cell receptors (TCRs) for cancer therapies is a time consuming and expensive procedure that usually requires a large amount of patient cells. To maximize information from and minimize the need of precious samples in cancer research, prediction models have been developed to identify in silico epitope-specific TCRs. In this chapter, we provide a step-by-step protocol to train a prediction model using the user-friendly TCRex webtool for the nearly universal tumor-associated antigen Wilms' tumor 1 (WT1)-specific TCR repertoire. WT1 is a self-antigen overexpressed in numerous solid and hematological malignancies with a high clinical relevance. Training of computational models starts from a list of known epitope-specific TCRs which is often not available for new cancer epitopes. Therefore, we describe a workflow to assemble a training data set consisting of TCR sequences obtained from WT1 -reactive CD8 T cell clones expanded and sorted from healthy donor peripheral blood mononuclear cells.