Conserved sequence motifs of CDR3 loops of TCR specific for two major epitopes of the grass pollen allergen PhI p 1

International Immunology

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 1998, Pages 1725-1732

  Friedl Hajek, Roswitha ^a   Breiteneder, Heimo ^a   Bohle, Barbara ^a   Fischer, Gottfried ^a   Ebner, Christof ^a   Scheiner, Otto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Allergenic peptides; T cell clone; Type I allergy

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; EPITOPE; HLA DR ANTIGEN; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; POLLEN ANTIGEN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GRASS POLLEN; HUMAN; POLLEN ALLERGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ALLERGENS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; EPITOPE MAPPING; EPITOPES; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY TESTING; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT PROTEINS; POLLEN; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA;

EID: 0031755493     PISSN: 09538178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/intimm/10.11.1725     Document Type: Article

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