Identification of B-cell epitopes in an antigen for inducing specific class of antibodies

Biology Direct

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Gupta, Sudheer ^a   Ansari, Hifzur R ^a   Gautam, Ankur ^a   Raghava, Gajendra P S ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MICROBIAL TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Antibody; B cell epitope; Class specific; Isotype; Prediction; Support vector machine

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN; DIPEPTIDE; EPITOPE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES, PROTEIN; DIPEPTIDES; EPITOPES, B-LYMPHOCYTE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MICE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 84886539142     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456150     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6150-8-27     Document Type: Article

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