B Cell Responses to a Peptide Epitope: IV. Subtle Sequence Changes in Flanking Residues Modulate Immunogenicity

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 159, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1809-1819

  Vijayakrishnan, Lalitha ^a   Sarkar, Surojit ^a   Roy, Rajendra P ^b   Rao, Kanury V S ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY ICGEB   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; PEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BIOSYNTHESIS; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; B-LYMPHOCYTES; EPITOPES; FEMALE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, B-CELL; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 0031571266     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.159.4.1809     Document Type: Article

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