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A structural framework for deciphering the link between I-Ag7 and autoimmune diabetes.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 21 Apr 2000
Corper A L, Stratmann T, Apostolopoulos V, Scott C A, Garcia K C, Kang A S, Wilson I A, Teyton L
Abstract excerpt
Susceptibility to murine and human insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus correlates strongly with major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II I-A or HLA-DQ alleles that lack an aspartic acid at position beta57. I-Ag7 lacks this aspartate and is the only class II allele expressed by the nonobese diabetic mouse. The crystal structure of I-Ag7 was determined at 2.6 angstrom resolution as a complex with a...
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