Automated identification of complementarity determining regions (CDRs) reveals peculiar characteristics of CDRs and B cell epitopes

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 181, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 6230-6235

  Ofran, Yanay ^a   Schlessinger, Avner ^b   Rost, Burkhard ^b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ANTIBODY; ANTIGEN; EPITOPE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN;

ANTIGEN STRUCTURE; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BINDING AFFINITY; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ANTIBODY COMBINING SITE; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY COMPLEX; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EPITOPE MAPPING; IMMUNOLOGY; INSTRUMENTATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

AMINO ACIDS; ANTIGEN-ANTIBODY COMPLEX; BINDING SITES, ANTIBODY; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGIONS; DATABASES, PROTEIN; EPITOPE MAPPING; EPITOPES, B-LYMPHOCYTE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAINS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 58749083955     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.181.9.6230     Document Type: Article

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