Immunodominance is independent of structural constraints each region within hen eggwhite lysozyme is potentially available upon processing of native antigen

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 159, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 2574-2579

  Moudgil, Kamal D ^a   Sekiguchi, Debora ^a   Kim, Sue Y ^a   Sercarz, Eli E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; LYSOZYME;

ANIMAL; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CHICK EMBRYO; EPITOPE MAPPING; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; IMMUNOLOGY; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; CHICK EMBRYO; EPITOPE MAPPING; HAPLOTYPES; IMMUNODOMINANT EPITOPES; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MURAMIDASE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 0031571809     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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