Crystal structure of microbial superantigen staphylococcal enterotoxin B at 1.5 Å resolution: Implications for superantigen recognition by MHC class II molecules and T-cell receptors

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 277, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 61-79

  Papageorgiou, Anastassios C ^a   Tranter, Howard S ^b   Acharya, K Ravi ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Major histocompatibility complex; Staphylococcal enterotoxin B; Superantigens; T cell receptor; X ray crystallography

Indexed keywords

MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; STAPHYLOCOCCUS ENTEROTOXIN A; STAPHYLOCOCCUS ENTEROTOXIN B; SUPERANTIGEN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL BOND; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GEOMETRY; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

POSIBACTERIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS;

EID: 0032549518     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1997.1577     Document Type: Article

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