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Electrostatic complementarity of B-cell receptor CDR3s and TP53-mutant amino acids in breast cancer is associated with increased disease-free survival rates

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Breast cancer has long been characterized as a B-cell-related disease with regard to the immune response. For example, data have indicated that B-cell receptor (BCR) recombination read recoveries from breast cancer exome (WXS) files revealed an increased disease-free survival (DFS) rate.1 However, the antigens stimulating the B-cell response have not been well characterized, particularly via immunogenomics analyses. Thus, we evaluated the net charge per residue (NCPR) for CDR3s, for BCRs expressed on tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs), to assess its electrostatic complementarity with TP53-mutant amino acids (AAs), because the CDR3 loop domain is the most important part of the BCR polypeptide for antigen-binding specificity.2

Two algorithms, termed the extended and abbreviated approaches (Supporting Online Material (SOM), Methods), were used to determine complementarity scores (CSs) based on the CDR3-mutant TP53 AA electrostatic complementarities. Both algorithms assessed complementarity using the NCPR for the BCR CDR3s and the values for the TP53 mutants based on the difference between the amino acid charges of mutant and wild-type TP53 (SOM, Methods; Tables S1-S5).

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The authors acknowledge the contributions of USF research computing and the taxpayers of the State of Florida. J.F.A., B.I.C., M.Y., S.F., and J.S.P. are recipients of RISE fellowships from the USF Morsani College of Medicine.

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    Juan F. Arturo, Boris I. Chobrutskiy, Michelle Yeagley, Dhruv N. Patel, Shayan Falasiri, Jay S. Patel & George Blanck

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Arturo, J.F., Chobrutskiy, B.I., Yeagley, M. et al. Electrostatic complementarity of B-cell receptor CDR3s and TP53-mutant amino acids in breast cancer is associated with increased disease-free survival rates. Cell Mol Immunol 17, 776–778 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41423-019-0328-8

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