Direct quantitation of MHC-bound peptide epitopes by selected reaction monitoring |
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Authors: | Tan Chor Teck Croft Nathan P Dudek Nadine L Williamson Nicholas A Purcell Anthony W |
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Institution: | Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Bio21 Molecular Science and Biotechnology Institute, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. |
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Abstract: | We describe a cell-free approach that employs selected reaction monitoring (SRM) in tandem mass spectrometry to identify and quantitate T-cell epitopes. This approach utilises multiple epitope-specific SRM transitions to identify known T-cell epitopes and an absolute quantitation (AQUA) peptide strategy to afford AQUA. The advantage of a mass spectrometry-based approach over more traditional cell-based assays resides in the robustness and transferability of an SRM approach between laboratories and the ability of this strategy to detect multiple peptides simultaneously without the requirement of epitope-specific reagents such as T-cell lines. Thus, the SRM strategy for epitope quantitation will find application in studies of antigen density, the link between epitope abundance and immunogenicity, the dynamic range of epitope presentation and the abundance of T-cell epitopes in disease. |
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Keywords: | Antigen processing Epitope MS Quantitation SRM Systems biology |
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