Tcrep 3d: An automated in silico approach to study the structural properties of tcr repertoires

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Leimgruber, Antoine ^a,b,c   Ferber, Mathias ^a,b   Irving, Melita ^b,d   Hussain Kahn, Hamid ^b   Wieckowski, Sébastien ^e   Derré, Laurent ^a   Rufer, Nathalie ^c,d,e   Zoete, Vincent ^b   Michielin, Olivier ^a,b,c,d  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

^c LUDWIG INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^d The National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR)   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CDR1 PROTEIN; CDR2 PROTEIN; CDR3 PROTEIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR ALPHA CHAIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR BETA CHAIN; TUMOR ANTIGEN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CTAG1B PROTEIN, HUMAN; GLYCINE; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

AB INITIO CALCULATION; ALGORITHM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BINDING AFFINITY; COMPUTER MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; HYDROGEN BOND; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MOLECULAR MODEL; MUTATION; PREDICTION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SIMULATION; TESTIS CANCER; BIOLOGY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; AUTOMATION; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGIONS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; GLYCINE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN BONDING; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 80055034134     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026301     Document Type: Article

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