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Compression of functional space in HLA-A sequence diversity.
Human immunology - 1 Jul 2003
Zhao Bing, Png Adrian Eak H, Ren Ee Chee, Kolatkar Prasanna R, Mathura Venkatarajan Subramaniam, Sakharkar Meena Kishore, Kangueane Pandjassarame
Abstract excerpt
The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) is highly polymorphic and more than 1500 human MHC alleles are known to date. These alleles do not bind to a given peptide with identical affinity. Although MHC alleles are functionally related, it is difficult to quantify the functional variation between them. Three-dimensional structures of known MHC-peptide (MHCp) complexes suggest that specific peptide residues bind...
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