Using a combined computational-experimental approach to predict antibody-specific B cell epitopes

Structure

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 646-657

  Sela Culang, Inbal ^a   Benhnia, Mohammed Rafii El Idrissi ^b,e,f   Matho, Michael H ^b   Kaever, Thomas ^b   Maybeno, Matt ^b   Schlossman, Andrew ^b   Nimrod, Guy ^a   Li, Sheng ^c   Xiang, Yan ^d   Zajonc, Dirk ^b   Crotty, Shane ^b   Ofran, Yanay ^a   Peters, Bjoern ^b  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^f HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DEL ROCÍO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; EPITOPE; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY COMPLEX; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PEPTIDE; VIRUS ANTIGEN;

ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPITOPE MAPPING; PREDICTION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X RAY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY COMPLEX; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; DEUTERIUM HYDROGEN EXCHANGE; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; VACCINIA VIRUS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTIGEN-ANTIBODY COMPLEX; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DEUTERIUM EXCHANGE MEASUREMENT; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPITOPE MAPPING; EPITOPES, B-LYMPHOCYTE; HUMANS; MICE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; PEPTIDES; VACCINIA VIRUS;

EID: 84898492241     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: 18784186     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2014.02.003     Document Type: Article

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