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Generation of tissue-specific and promiscuous HLA ligand databases using DNA microarrays and virtual HLA class II matrices.
Nature biotechnology - 1 Jun 1999
Sturniolo T, Bono E, Ding J, Raddrizzani L, Tuereci O, Sahin U, Braxenthaler M, Gallazzi F, Protti M P, Sinigaglia F, Hammer J
Abstract excerpt
Most pockets in the human leukocyte antigen-group DR (HLA-DR) groove are shaped by clusters of polymorphic residues and, thus, have distinct chemical and size characteristics in different HLA-DR alleles. Each HLA-DR pocket can be characterized by "pocket profiles," a quantitative representation of the interaction of all natural amino acid residues with a given pocket. In this report we demonstrate that pocket...
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