Amino acid similarity accounts for T cell cross-reactivity and for "holes" in the T cell repertoire

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Frankild, Sune ^a   de Boer, Rob J ^b   Lund, Ole ^a   Nielsen, Morten ^a   Kesmir, Can ^b,c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; LIGAND; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; IMMUNOGENICITY; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; VIRUS IMMUNITY; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MUTATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CROSS REACTIONS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPITOPES; HIV; HUMANS; LIGANDS; MUTATION; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; T-LYMPHOCYTES, CYTOTOXIC;

EID: 46649086131     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001831     Document Type: Article

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