Peptide analogs to pathogenic epitopes of the human acetylcholine receptor a subunit as potential modulators of myasthenia gravis

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 93, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 4492-4497

  Zisman, Einat ^a   Katz Levy, Yael ^a   Dayan, Molly ^a   Kirshner, Susan L ^a   Paas Rozner, Miri ^a   Karni, Arnon ^b   Abramskyi, Oded ^b   Brautbar, Chaim ^b   Fridkin, Mati ^a   Sela, Michael ^a   Mozes, Edna ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Altered peptide ligand; Binding to major histocompatibility complex class II; Immunotherapy; Peptide antagonists

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ALPHA CHAIN; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; EPITOPE MAPPING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOTHERAPY; LIGAND BINDING; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGEN-PRESENTING CELLS; BINDING SITES; EPITOPES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-2; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYASTHENIA GRAVIS; PEPTIDES; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 0029864165     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.93.9.4492     Document Type: Article

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