MimicNeoAI: An integrated pipeline for identifying microbial epitopes and mimicry of tumor neoepitopes
Chen, T.; Wang, W.; Zuo, X.; Zhang, Y.; Li, M.; Li, Z.; He, Y.; Zhou, Y.; Ye, F.; Zhang, B.; Jiang, Q.; Liu, H.; Zhang, L.; Fang, J.; Zhang, Y.
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Tumor-associated microbial antigens represent promising immunotherapy targets, yet systematic identification methods remain underdeveloped. We developed MimicNeoAI, a computational pipeline integrating BiLSTM networks to identify microbial epitopes, mutation-derived neoepitopes, and their microbial mimics from sequencing data. Training on validated epitope datasets yielded 0.90 AUC with 91% accuracy on experimental validation sets. Application to colorectal cancer revealed that microbial epitopes, despite originating from a nine-fold smaller peptide pool, generated twice the immunogenic candidates (153 vs 75) compared to mutation-derived neoepitopes. These microbial epitopes exhibited exclusive tumor-specificity with no overlap in normal tissues. Single-cell TCR sequencing confirmed clonal expansion against 75% of predicted highly immunogenic epitopes, with molecular dynamics simulations demonstrating positive correlation between predicted immunogenicity and HLA-epitope-TCR binding stability. Collectively, our pipeline systematically unveils abundant, tumor-specific, and highly immunogenic microbial epitopes, providing a computational framework for developing broadly applicable cancer immunotherapies that leverage the tumor microbiome as an untapped source of therapeutic targets.
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