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Conformational Dimorphism of Self-peptides and Molecular Mimicry in a Disease-associated HLA-B27 Subtype
13 Oct 2005
Abstract excerpt
An interesting property of certain peptides presented by major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules is their acquisition of a dual binding mode within the peptide binding groove. Using x-ray crystallography at 1.4 A resolution, we show here that the glucagon receptor-derived self-peptide pGR ((412)RRRWHRWRL(420)) is presented by the disease-associated human MHC class I subtype HLA-B*2705 in a dual...
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