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Distant interactions between dimorphisms in HLA-DR4 radically affect recognition of defined peptides by a specific T cell clone.
International immunology - 1 May 1999
Matsuo H, Corlett L, Hawke S, Nicolle M, Driscoll P, Deshpande S, Spack E, Willcox N
Abstract excerpt
Several isolated dimorphisms recur in many HLA class II alleles, but it is not clear whether they merely influence the binding of peptides locally or have more general effects on their recognition by T cells. For example, interchanges in HLA-DRbeta include 86Gly <--> Val and 57Asp <--> Ser at either end of its alpha helix, and 71Arg <--> Lys in the middle. In DR4, the existence of six subtypes differing by single...
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