Mutants of human β2-microglobulin map an immunodominant epitope within the three-stranded β-pleated sheet

Transplantation

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 640-645

  Trymbulak Jr , Walter P ^a   Zeff, Richard A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA 2 MICROGLOBULIN; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN; EPITOPE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPITOPE MAPPING; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MELANOMA CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME MAP; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENETICS; MUTATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

ANIMALS; BETA 2-MICROGLOBULIN; CELL LINE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; IMMUNODOMINANT EPITOPES; MICE; MUTATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EID: 0031588037     PISSN: 00411337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007890-199708270-00016     Document Type: Article

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