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preprint · bioRxiv

A multi-scale structural and biophysical atlas of TCR-peptide-HLA recognition dynamics

Zhang, S. and colleagues report that dynaTPH adds standardized molecular-dynamics trajectories and biophysical features to 256 representative T-cell-receptor complexes.

Author affiliations

  • Institute of Medical Artificial Intelligence, South China Hospital, Shenzhen University

In plain English

The dataset turns static immune-receptor structures into moving molecular records that computational models can analyze.

How the study worked

A plain-language walk through the work behind the result.

  1. Filtered public TCR-peptide-HLA structures into 256 representative complexes.

  2. Ran standardized all-atom molecular-dynamics simulations for every complex.

  3. Derived contacts, hydrogen bonds, solvent exposure, and backbone-flexibility measurements.

What they found

  • The resulting atlas covers both HLA class I and class II complexes.
  • The resource pairs structures and trajectories with multiple interaction and flexibility features.

Why it matters

A standardized dynamics corpus could support more realistic computational immunology, TCR engineering, and model evaluation.

The catch

  • The record is a preprint and has not completed peer review.
  • This summary is based on the abstract; methods and supplementary analyses were not independently rechecked.

Evidence ledger

Sources behind this brief

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    Primary source

    bioRxiv preprint

    preprint · Accessed August 26, 2026