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Alexander Greenshields-Watson

Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Oxford
Verified email at nexus.ox.ac.uk
Cited by 501

VDJdb in 2019: database extension, new analysis infrastructure and a T-cell receptor motif compendium

…, C Rius, G Dolton, A Greenshields-Watson… - Nucleic Acids …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Here, we report an update of the VDJdb database with a substantial increase in the number
of T-cell receptor (TCR) sequences and their cognate antigens. The update further provides …

[HTML][HTML] Diversity within the adenovirus fiber knob hypervariable loops influences primary receptor interactions

AT Baker, A Greenshields-Watson, L Coughlan… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Adenovirus based vectors are of increasing importance for wide ranging therapeutic applications.
As vaccines, vectors derived from human adenovirus species D serotypes 26 and 48 (…

[PDF][PDF] Structural definition of HLA class II-presented SARS-CoV-2 epitopes reveals a mechanism to escape pre-existing CD4+ T cell immunity

…, GH Mason, DO Scourfield, A Greenshields-Watson… - Cell Reports, 2023 - cell.com
CD4 + T cells recognize a broad range of peptide epitopes of severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which contribute to immune memory and limit COVID-19 …

[HTML][HTML] T-cell libraries allow simple parallel generation of multiple peptide-specific human T-cell clones

SM Theaker, C Rius, A Greenshields-Watson… - Journal of …, 2016 - Elsevier
Isolation of peptide-specific T-cell clones is highly desirable for determining the role of T-cells
in human disease, as well as for the development of therapies and diagnostics. However, …

Immune remodeling of the extracellular matrix drives loss of cancer stem cells and tumor rejection

A Pires, A Greenshields-Watson, E Jones… - Cancer immunology …, 2020 - AACR
The nature of the tumor microenvironment (TME) influences the ability of tumor-specific T cells
to control tumor growth. In this study, we performed an unbiased comparison of the TME of …

Molecular characterization of HLA class II binding to the LAG‐3 T cell co‐inhibitory receptor

…, GH Mason, A GreenshieldsWatson… - European Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Immune checkpoint inhibitors (antibodies that block the T cell co‐inhibitory receptors PD‐1/PD‐L1
or CTLA‐4) have revolutionized the treatment of some forms of cancer. Importantly, …

[PDF][PDF] CD4+ T cells recognize conserved influenza a epitopes through shared patterns of V-gene usage and complementary biochemical features

A Greenshields-Watson, M Attaf, BJ MacLachlan… - Cell reports, 2020 - cell.com
T cell recognition of peptides presented by human leukocyte antigens (HLAs) is mediated
by the highly variable T cell receptor (TCR). Despite this built-in TCR variability, individuals …

[HTML][HTML] Investigating the ability of deep learning-based structure prediction to extrapolate and/or enrich the set of antibody CDR canonical forms

A Greenshields-Watson, B Abanades… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Deep learning models have been shown to accurately predict protein structure from sequence,
allowing researchers to explore protein space from the structural viewpoint. In this paper …

[HTML][HTML] The nature of the human T cell response to the cancer antigen 5T4 is determined by the balance of regulatory and inflammatory T cells of the same antigen …

M Besneux, A Greenshields-Watson, MJ Scurr… - Cancer Immunology …, 2019 - Springer
The oncofoetal antigen 5T4 is a promising T cell target in the context of colorectal cancer, as
demonstrated by a recent clinical study where 5T4-specific T cell responses, induced by …

[HTML][HTML] Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class II peptide flanking residues tune the immunogenicity of a human tumor-derived epitope

…, A Papakyriakou, A Greenshields-Watson… - Journal of Biological …, 2019 - ASBMB
CD4 + T-cells recognize peptide antigens, in the context of human leukocyte antigen (HLA)
class II molecules (HLA-II), which through peptide-flanking residues (PFRs) can extend …