Comprehensive 3D-modeling of allergenic proteins and amino acid composition of potential conformational IgE epitopes

Molecular Immunology

Volumn 45, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 3740-3747

  Oezguen, Numan ^a   Zhou, Bin ^b   Negi, Surendra S ^a   Ivanciuc, Ovidiu ^a   Schein, Catherine H ^a   Labesse, Gilles ^c   Braun, Werner ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b GENOMICS INSTITUTE OF THE NOVARTIS RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

^c CENTRE DE BIOCHIMIE STRUCTURALE   (France)

Author keywords

Allergens; Linear epitopes; SDAP; Structural database

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ALLERGEN; ASPARAGINE; EPITOPE; GLYCINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; LYSINE; SERINE;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; ANTIGEN STRUCTURE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER MODEL; EPITOPE MAPPING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

ALLERGENS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS; DATABASES, PROTEIN; EPITOPES; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 48149098909     PISSN: 01615890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molimm.2008.05.026     Document Type: Article

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