Prediction of Epitope-Associated TCR by Using Network Topological Similarity Based on Deepwalk

Currently, there are many tools available online for T-cell epitope prediction. They usually focus on the binding of peptides to major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules on the surface of antigen-presenting cells (APCs). However, the binding of peptides and MHC complexes to the T-cell recept...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jingshu Bi, Yuanjie Zheng, Fang Yan, Sujuan Hou, Chengjiang Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2019-01-01
Series:IEEE Access
Subjects:
Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8876604/
_version_ 1818323609043599360
author Jingshu Bi
Yuanjie Zheng
Fang Yan
Sujuan Hou
Chengjiang Li
author_facet Jingshu Bi
Yuanjie Zheng
Fang Yan
Sujuan Hou
Chengjiang Li
author_sort Jingshu Bi
collection DOAJ
description Currently, there are many tools available online for T-cell epitope prediction. They usually focus on the binding of peptides to major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules on the surface of antigen-presenting cells (APCs). However, the binding of peptides and MHC complexes to the T-cell receptor (TCR) is also critical for the immune process. Identifying the binding of human epitopes to TCRs will be useful for developing vaccines. It also has great prospects in medical issues such as cancer and autoimmune diseases. We propose a similarity-based TCR-epitope prediction method using a similarity measure. This paper introduces the Deepwalk method to calculate the topological similarity between TCR-TCRs, constructs a TCR similarity network topology, and predicts the correlation between TCRs and epitopes based on known TCR-epitope associations. We selected data from 22 types of epitopes from the VDJDB database and trained models to implement TCR-epitope prediction. We trained a model on the data from the 22 types of epitopes, predicting which epitope each TCR belongs to. To compare with other methods, we also generated a second method involving training a model for each type of epitope so that we can predict which TCR is bound to the epitope from a large pool of TCRs. We used the ROC curve, PR curve and other evaluation indicators to evaluate our model in 10-fold cross-validation. In the first model, the AUC value of our method is 0.926, and that of the support vector machine (SVM) method is 0.924. Considering that no one has ever used the first prediction model, we used the second method for the predictions. The results show better predictive performance compared to the SVM method, TCRGP method and random forest method. Our AUC values range from 0.660 to 0.950. The experimental results show that our method outperforms other methods in TCR-epitope prediction, which can help predict the TCR-epitope.
first_indexed 2024-12-13T11:15:24Z
format Article
id doaj.art-b7c66f5d1d94474da10b5873b317a7d4
institution Directory Open Access Journal
issn 2169-3536
language English
last_indexed 2024-12-13T11:15:24Z
publishDate 2019-01-01
publisher IEEE
record_format Article
series IEEE Access
spelling doaj.art-b7c66f5d1d94474da10b5873b317a7d42022-12-21T23:48:37ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362019-01-01715127315128110.1109/ACCESS.2019.29481788876604Prediction of Epitope-Associated TCR by Using Network Topological Similarity Based on DeepwalkJingshu Bi0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6617-9566Yuanjie Zheng1Fang Yan2Sujuan Hou3Chengjiang Li4School of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, ChinaSchool of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, ChinaSchool of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, ChinaSchool of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, ChinaDepartment of Electrical Engineering Information Technology, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Jinan, ChinaCurrently, there are many tools available online for T-cell epitope prediction. They usually focus on the binding of peptides to major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules on the surface of antigen-presenting cells (APCs). However, the binding of peptides and MHC complexes to the T-cell receptor (TCR) is also critical for the immune process. Identifying the binding of human epitopes to TCRs will be useful for developing vaccines. It also has great prospects in medical issues such as cancer and autoimmune diseases. We propose a similarity-based TCR-epitope prediction method using a similarity measure. This paper introduces the Deepwalk method to calculate the topological similarity between TCR-TCRs, constructs a TCR similarity network topology, and predicts the correlation between TCRs and epitopes based on known TCR-epitope associations. We selected data from 22 types of epitopes from the VDJDB database and trained models to implement TCR-epitope prediction. We trained a model on the data from the 22 types of epitopes, predicting which epitope each TCR belongs to. To compare with other methods, we also generated a second method involving training a model for each type of epitope so that we can predict which TCR is bound to the epitope from a large pool of TCRs. We used the ROC curve, PR curve and other evaluation indicators to evaluate our model in 10-fold cross-validation. In the first model, the AUC value of our method is 0.926, and that of the support vector machine (SVM) method is 0.924. Considering that no one has ever used the first prediction model, we used the second method for the predictions. The results show better predictive performance compared to the SVM method, TCRGP method and random forest method. Our AUC values range from 0.660 to 0.950. The experimental results show that our method outperforms other methods in TCR-epitope prediction, which can help predict the TCR-epitope.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8876604/DeepwalkTCR-epitope associationsTCR-epitope predictionsimilarity measure
spellingShingle Jingshu Bi
Yuanjie Zheng
Fang Yan
Sujuan Hou
Chengjiang Li
Prediction of Epitope-Associated TCR by Using Network Topological Similarity Based on Deepwalk
IEEE Access
Deepwalk
TCR-epitope associations
TCR-epitope prediction
similarity measure
title Prediction of Epitope-Associated TCR by Using Network Topological Similarity Based on Deepwalk
title_full Prediction of Epitope-Associated TCR by Using Network Topological Similarity Based on Deepwalk
title_fullStr Prediction of Epitope-Associated TCR by Using Network Topological Similarity Based on Deepwalk
title_full_unstemmed Prediction of Epitope-Associated TCR by Using Network Topological Similarity Based on Deepwalk
title_short Prediction of Epitope-Associated TCR by Using Network Topological Similarity Based on Deepwalk
title_sort prediction of epitope associated tcr by using network topological similarity based on deepwalk
topic Deepwalk
TCR-epitope associations
TCR-epitope prediction
similarity measure
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8876604/
work_keys_str_mv AT jingshubi predictionofepitopeassociatedtcrbyusingnetworktopologicalsimilaritybasedondeepwalk
AT yuanjiezheng predictionofepitopeassociatedtcrbyusingnetworktopologicalsimilaritybasedondeepwalk
AT fangyan predictionofepitopeassociatedtcrbyusingnetworktopologicalsimilaritybasedondeepwalk
AT sujuanhou predictionofepitopeassociatedtcrbyusingnetworktopologicalsimilaritybasedondeepwalk
AT chengjiangli predictionofepitopeassociatedtcrbyusingnetworktopologicalsimilaritybasedondeepwalk