Immunological hotspots analyzed by docking simulations: Evidence for a general mechanism in pemphigus vulgaris pathology and transformation

BMC Immunology

Volumn 9, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Tong, Joo Chuan ^a   Sinha, Animesh A ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESMOGLEIN 1; DESMOGLEIN 3; GLYCOPROTEIN; HLA DR ANTIGEN; AUTOANTIBODY; EPITOPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; EPITOPE MAPPING; IMMUNOLOGICAL TECHNIQUE; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; MOLECULAR DOCKING; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PEMPHIGUS VULGARIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TARGETING; SCREENING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; T LYMPHOCYTE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PATHOLOGY; PEMPHIGUS; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AUTOANTIBODIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DESMOGLEIN 1; DESMOGLEIN 3; EPITOPES, T-LYMPHOCYTE; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; HUMANS; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEMPHIGUS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

EID: 46649097854     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712172     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2172-9-30     Document Type: Article

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