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A single residue exchange between two HLA-B27 alleles triggers increased peptide flexibility.
European biophysics journal : EBJ - 1 Nov 2004
Starikov Ewgeni B, Starikow Ewgeni B, Nilsson Lennart, Hülsmeyer Martin
Abstract excerpt
For more than 30 years, human leukocyte antigen B27 (HLA-B27) has been known to be closely related to the autoimmune disease ankylosing spondylitis, yet little is known about the molecular mechanisms of pathogenesis. Crystal structures of two closely related, but differently disease-associated, subtypes (B*2705 and B*2709) also did not resolve this situation as they revealed the bound nonapeptide in essentially...
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