Peptide-based vaccinology: Experimental and computational approaches to target hypervariable viruses through the fine characterization of protective epitopes recognized by monoclonal antibodies and the identification of T-cell-activating peptides

Clinical and Developmental Immunology

Volumn 2013, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Castelli, Matteo ^a   Cappelletti, Francesca ^a   Diotti, Roberta Antonia ^a   Sautto, Giuseppe ^a   Criscuolo, Elena ^a   Dal Peraro, Matteo ^b   Clementi, Nicola ^a  

^a VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b Laboratory of Computational Systems Biology Institute of Bioengineering School of Life Sciences   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD8 ANTIGEN; EPITOPE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; VIRUS HEMAGGLUTININ; VIRUS PROTEIN; PEPTIDE; SUBUNIT VACCINE; VIRUS ANTIBODY; VIRUS VACCINE;

ANTIGEN ANTIBODY COMPLEX; COMPUTER MODEL; COMPUTER PREDICTION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; EPITOPE MAPPING; HUMAN; MACHINE LEARNING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPENSITY SCORE; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN TARGETING; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE; VIRUS CHARACTERIZATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; EPITOPES, B-LYMPHOCYTE; EPITOPES, T-LYMPHOCYTE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, HUMORAL; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; PEPTIDES; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; VACCINES, SUBUNIT; VIRAL VACCINES;

EID: 84880181078     PISSN: 17402522     EISSN: 17402530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2013/521231     Document Type: Review

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