The peptide length specificity of some HLA class I alleles is very broad and includes peptides of up to 25 amino acids in length

Molecular Immunology

Volumn 46, Issue 8-9, 2009, Pages 1911-1917

  Bell, Melissa J ^a   Burrows, Jacqueline M ^a   Brennan, Rebekah ^a,b   Miles, John J ^a   Tellam, Judy ^a   McCluskey, James ^c   Rossjohn, Jamie ^d   Khanna, Rajiv ^a   Burrows, Scott R ^a  

^a QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antigen presentation processing; Human; MHC class I

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID DERIVATIVE; HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 1; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1;

ALLELE; ANIMAL CELL; ANTIGEN BINDING; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; T LYMPHOCYTE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CELLS, CULTURED; HLA-B ANTIGENS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN BINDING; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

EID: 64149115648     PISSN: 01615890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molimm.2008.12.003     Document Type: Article

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