A five-residue HIV envelope helper T cell determinant: Does this peptide-MHC interaction leave the binding groove half empty?

AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses

Volumn 18, Issue 15, 2002, Pages 1141-1144

  Lockey, Timothy D ^a   Surman, Sherri ^a   Brown, Scott ^a   Slobod, Karen S ^a   Coleclough, Christopher ^a   Doherty, Peter C ^a   Hurwitz, Julia L ^a  

^a ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CORE PROTEIN; EPITOPE; GLYCOPROTEIN; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; PEPTIDE; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CELL STIMULATION; HELPER CELL; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HYBRID CELL; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; VIRUS ENVELOPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; EPITOPES, T-LYMPHOCYTE; GENE PRODUCTS, ENV; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS II; HIV-1; HUMANS; HYBRIDOMAS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; T-LYMPHOCYTES, HELPER-INDUCER;

EID: 0036399697     PISSN: 08892229     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/088922202320567888     Document Type: Article

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