Limitations of ab initio predictions of peptide binding to MHC class II molecules

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Zhang, Hao ^a   Wang, Peng ^b   Papangelopoulos, Nikitas ^c   Xu, Ying ^d   Sette, Alessandro ^b   Bourne, Philip E ^c   Lund, Ole ^a   Ponomarenko, Julia ^c   Nielsen, Morten ^a   Peters, Bjoern ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^d University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; PROTEOME; EPITOPE; HLA A ANTIGEN; HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 2; HLA DRB1*0101 ANTIGEN, HUMAN; HLA-DRB1*0101 ANTIGEN, HUMAN; PEPTIDE;

AB INITIO CALCULATION; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SIMULATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ALGORITHM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; HYDROGEN BOND; HYDROPHOBICITY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN DATABASE; STATIC ELECTRICITY; THERMODYNAMICS;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES, PROTEIN; EPITOPES; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS II; HLA-A ANTIGENS; HUMANS; HYDROGEN BONDING; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN BINDING; STATIC ELECTRICITY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 77949494386     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009272     Document Type: Article

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