Findings on T cell specificity revealed by synthetic combinatorial libraries Article

Borràs, E, Martin, R, Judkowski, V et al. (2002). Findings on T cell specificity revealed by synthetic combinatorial libraries . 267(1), 79-97. 10.1016/S0022-1759(02)00142-4

cited authors

  • Borràs, E; Martin, R; Judkowski, V; Shukaliak, J; Zhao, Y; Rubio-Godoy, V; Valmori, D; Wilson, D; Simon, R; Houghten, R; Pinilla, C

authors

abstract

  • Combinatorial libraries and in particular positional scanning synthetic combinatorial libraries (PS-SCL) allow the study of T cell specificity. This is a systematic and unbiased approach that does not require any previous knowledge about the clones to be studied, neither their specificity nor they major histocompatibility complex (MHC) restriction. Two different types of T cell clone ligands can be identified: (1) peptides that do not necessarily correspond to proteins described in the databases, and (2) peptides that are fragments of natural proteins. In this paper, relevant examples of the application of PS-SCL and the deconvolution strategies followed to identify T cell epitopes for clones of known and unknown specificity will be reviewed. Also, important issues like the immunogenicity of such T cell ligands will be discussed. © 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

publication date

  • September 1, 2002

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

start page

  • 79

end page

  • 97

volume

  • 267

issue

  • 1