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Negatively-charged amino acids at the peptide-binding pocket of HLA-DPB1 alleles are associated with susceptibility to anti-topoisomerase I-positive systemic sclerosis.
Human immunology - 1 Jul 2016
Lee Jeong Seok, Park Jin Kyun, Kim Heung Jae, Lee Hyung Ki, Song Yeong Wook, Lee Eun Bong
Abstract excerpt
We investigated shared characteristics of amino acid sequences in the at risk HLA-DPB1 alleles in systemic sclerosis (SSc). Amino acid sequences and their structural features of HLA-DP molecules in 127 Korean SSc patients and 548 healthy Korean controls were analyzed with a focus on known HLA-DP binding motifs. The binding grooves containing more negatively-charged triplets (NCT) had higher odds ratios of...
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