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HLAProphet: Personalized allele-level quantification of the HLA proteins

Mumphrey, M. B.; Li, G. X.; Hosseini, N.; Nesvizhskii, A.; Cieslik, M.

2023-01-31 bioinformatics
10.1101/2023.01.29.526142 bioRxiv
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Loss of HLA expression in tumor cells is a commonly observed phenotype that is known to be associated with T-cell evasion. Proteogenomic characterizations of the molecular mechanisms underpinning this loss of HLA expression are hindered by the polymorphic nature of the HLA proteins, with most individuals having germline HLA sequences that are highly divergent from the sequences found in standard reference databases. To address this issue, we have developed HLAProphet, an algorithm that utilizes HLA types from paired DNA sequencing data to provide personalized allele-level quantification of the HLA proteins from TMT mass spectrometry data. We show that HLAProphet triples the number of tryptic peptide identifications made by standard reference based approaches, and produces protein expression values that have high concordance with RNA expression and known loss of heterozygosity events.

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