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A Wider and Deeper Peptide-Binding Groove for the Class I Molecules from B15 Compared with B19 Chickens Correlates with Relative Resistance to Marek's Disease.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) - 1 Mar 2023
Han Lingxia, Wu Shaolian, Zhang Ting, Peng Weiyu, Zhao Min, Yue Can, Wen Wanxin, Cai Wenbo, Li Min, Wallny Hans-Joachim, Avila David W, Mwangi William, Nair Venugopal, Ternette Nicola, Guo Yaxin, Zhao Yingze, Chai Yan, Qi Jianxun, Liang Hao, Gao George F, Kaufman Jim, Liu William J
Abstract excerpt
The chicken MHC is known to confer decisive resistance or susceptibility to various economically important pathogens, including the iconic oncogenic herpesvirus that causes Marek's disease (MD). Only one classical class I gene, BF2, is expressed at a high level in chickens, so it was relatively easy to discern a hierarchy from well-expressed thermostable fastidious specialist alleles to promiscuous generalist...
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