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Jonas A Mehl
dblp:440/7241
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2026
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper |
Bioinformatics and computational biology · 100% |
Topics — the 5 heaviest of 5, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Bioinformatics and computational biology › protein design
peptide generation |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | PMGen: from peptide-MHC structure prediction to peptide generation · Bioinform. 2026 |
Bioinformatics and computational biology
protein design |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | PMGen: from peptide-MHC structure prediction to peptide generation · Bioinform. 2026 |
Bioinformatics and computational biology
protein structure prediction |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | PMGen: from peptide-MHC structure prediction to peptide generation · Bioinform. 2026 |
Bioinformatics and computational biology
structural bioinformatics |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | PMGen: from peptide-MHC structure prediction to peptide generation · Bioinform. 2026 |
Bioinformatics and computational biology
immunoinformatics |
0.3 | 1 | 2026 | PMGen: from peptide-MHC structure prediction to peptide generation · Bioinform. 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
template engineering · 1.0initial guess · 1.0alphafold2 · 1.0ProteinMPNN · 1.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | PMGen: from peptide-MHC structure prediction to peptide generationabstractMOTIVATION: Accurate structural modeling of peptide-major histocompatibility complex (pMHC) complexes is essential for structure-driven immunotherapy design, yet current prediction tools suffer from narrow class coverage, restricted peptide lengths, insufficient accuracy, and a lack of built-in structure-aware peptide sampling. Consequently, most mimotope and altered peptide ligand designs rely solely on sequence substitution, leaving spatial and biophysical insights from pMHC structures largely unexploited. RESULTS: We introduce peptide-MHC generator (PMGen), an integrated framework for structure prediction and structure-guided design of variable-length peptides across MHC Class I and II. PMGen enforces anchor constraints within AlphaFold2 through two complementary strategies, initial guess and template engineering, achieving state-of-the-art structural fidelity without model fine-tuning. On a comprehensive benchmark, PMGen outperforms all existing methods, yielding median peptide-core Cα RMSDs of 0.62 Å for MHC-I and 0.33 Å for MHC-II. We show that PMGen can recover incorrectly predicted anchor positions and that AlphaFold pLDDT scores enable sequence-independent binding-core identification. Applied to a published neoantigen/wild-type pair, PMGen accurately captures mutation-induced conformational changes. Beyond structure prediction, we show that ProteinMPNN sampling on PMGen-predicted backbones yields higher affinity peptides while preserving the parental 3D conformation. Using PMGen to generate 63 817 high-confidence pMHC structures as training data, we further improve ProteinMPNN's peptide sequence recovery from 0.14 to 0.64 on a test set of 85 unseen MHC-I alleles, highlighting the value of accurate predicted structures for downstream machine learning tasks. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: PMGen is freely available at https://github.com/soedinglab/PMGen, with an interactive Colab notebook at https://colab.research.google.com/github/soedinglab/PMGen/blob/master/colab.ipynb. Amir H. Asgary, Amirreza Aleyasin, Jonas A Mehl, Salman S. Fallah, Hasmig Aintablian, Burkhard Ludewig, Michele Mishto, Juliane Liepe, Johannes Söding |
Bioinform. | 3 |