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Selective pressure to increase charge in immunodominant epitopes of the H3 hemagglutinin influenza protein.
Journal of molecular evolution - 1 Jan 2011
Pan Keyao, Long Jinxue, Sun Haoxin, Tobin Gregory J, Nara Peter L, Deem Michael W
Abstract excerpt
The evolutionary speed and the consequent immune escape of H3N2 influenza A virus make it an interesting evolutionary system. Charged amino acid residues are often significant contributors to the free energy of binding for protein-protein interactions, including antibody-antigen binding and ligand-receptor binding. We used Markov chain theory and maximum likelihood estimation to model the evolution of the number...
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