Novel immunodominant peptide presentation strategy: A featured HLA-A*2402-restricted cytotoxic T-lymphocyte epitope stabilized by intrachain hydrogen bonds from severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus nucleocapsid protein

Journal of Virology

Volumn 84, Issue 22, 2010, Pages 11849-11857

  Liu, Jun ^a,b   Wu, Peng ^c   Gao, Feng ^d   Qi, Jianxun ^a   Kawana Tachikawa, Ai ^e   Xie, Jing ^c   Vavricka, Christopher J ^a   Iwamoto, Aikichi ^e   Li, Taisheng ^c   Gao, George F ^a,b,f  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (China)

^d INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^f INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA 2 MICROGLOBULIN; EPITOPE; HLA A ANTIGEN; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYDROGEN BOND; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; SARS CORONAVIRUS;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CELL LINE; CELLS, CULTURED; EPITOPE MAPPING; EPITOPES, T-LYMPHOCYTE; FEMALE; HLA-A ANTIGENS; HUMANS; HYDROGEN BONDING; LEUKOCYTES, MONONUCLEAR; MALE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOCAPSID PROTEINS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN FOLDING; SARS VIRUS; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; T-LYMPHOCYTES, CYTOTOXIC;

SARS CORONAVIRUS;

EID: 78049491290     PISSN: 0022538X     EISSN: 10985514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JVI.01464-10     Document Type: Article

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