Estimated secondary structure propensities within V1/V2 region of HIV gp120 are an important global antibody neutralization sensitivity determinant

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Totrov, Maxim ^a  

^a MOLSOFT LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; GLYCOPROTEIN GP 120; NEUTRALIZING ANTIBODY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS ANTIBODY; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; BETA CHAIN; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; NONHUMAN; PROPENSITY SCORE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SERUM; VIRUS ISOLATION; VIRUS NEUTRALIZATION; VIRUS RECOMBINANT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SERODIAGNOSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBODIES, NEUTRALIZING; EPITOPES; HIV ANTIBODIES; HIV ENVELOPE PROTEIN GP120; HIV-1; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUTRALIZATION TESTS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84899055507     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0094002     Document Type: Article

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