Cutting edge: Predictable TCR antigen recognition based on peptide scans leads to the identification of agonist ligands with no sequence homology

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 160, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 3631-3636

  Hemmer, Bernhard ^a   Vergelli, Marco ^a   Gran, Bruno ^a   Ling, Nick ^b   Conlon, Paul ^b   Pinilla, Clemencia ^c   Houghten, Richard ^c,d   McFarland, Henry F ^a   Martin, Roland ^a,e  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^b NEUROCRINE BIOSCIENCES INC   (United States)

^c TORREY PINES INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR STUDIES   (United States)

^d Multiple Peptide Systems   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 2; LIGAND; MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN; T LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN; ANTIGEN; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; PEPTIDE; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CELL CLONING; CELL SURVIVAL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR AFFINITY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR GENE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL CLONE; CHEMISTRY; CROSS REACTION; CYTOTOXICITY; EPITOPE MAPPING; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; METABOLISM;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTIGENS; AUTOIMMUNITY; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CLONE CELLS; CROSS REACTIONS; CYTOTOXICITY, IMMUNOLOGIC; EPITOPE MAPPING; HUMANS; LIGANDS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MYELIN BASIC PROTEINS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PEPTIDES; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL;

EID: 0032521903     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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