Prediction of alpha helices and T cell-presented sequences in proteins with algorithms based on strip-of-helix hydrophobicity index.

Abstract:

:Recurrent aliphatic hydrophobic amino acids which occur in the sequence of a protein or a peptide at positions which form an axial, hydrophobic strip when the sequence is coiled as an alpha helix might stabilize coiling against hydrophobic surfaces. That effect can lead to helix formation against hydrophobic cores of nascent proteins or excised T cell-presented peptides and to protease protection and scavenging for presentation by MHC molecules. Such consensus sequences of recurrent hydrophobicity creating a scavenger "S" site might overlap to varying degrees the T cell-presented "T" epitope which actually sits in the antigen-binding site of a MHC molecules, as long as a cleavage "C" site does not fall between them when they are relatively separated. Cooperatively among the residues in an axial, hydrophobic strip to stabilize helix formation is reflected in the SOHHI, which is the mean hydrophobicity of residues in such potential strips. Algorithms based on the SOHHI, with additional considerations related to length and caps, lead to sensitive and efficient predictions of structural helices and of T cell-presented epitopes. In experimental tests of these ideas, the SOHHI was found to correlate to helical coiling of amphiphilic peptides in the presence of lipid vesicles. These principles lead to hypotheses to alter the potency and range of MHC restriction of peptide vaccines or to decrease the immunogenicity of therapeutic proteins.

journal_name

Methods Enzymol

journal_title

Methods in enzymology

authors

Reyes VE,Lew RA,Lu S,Humphreys RE

doi

10.1016/0076-6879(91)02013-y

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1991-01-01 00:00:00

pages

225-38

eissn

0076-6879

issn

1557-7988

pii

0076-6879(91)02013-Y

journal_volume

202

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