Characterization of the human Ig heavy chain antigen binding complementarity determining region 3 using a newly developed software algorithm, JOINSOLVER

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 172, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 6790-6802

  Souto Carneiro, M Margarida ^a   Longo, Nancy S ^a   Russ, Daniel E ^b   Sun, Hong Wei ^c   Lipsky, Peter E ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ARTHRITIS AND MUSCULOSKELETAL AND SKIN DISEASES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; SERINE;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 15; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYDROPHILICITY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

EID: 2442717677     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.172.11.6790     Document Type: Article

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