A polyalanine peptide with only five native myelin basic protein residues induces autoimmune encephalomyelitis.
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A polyalanine peptide with only five native myelin basic protein residues induces autoimmune encephalomyelitis
The minimum structural requirements for peptide interactions with major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II molecules and with T cell receptors (TCRs) were examined. In this report we show that substituting alanines at all but five amino acids in the myelin basic protein (MBP) peptide Ac1-11 does not alter its ability to bind A alpha uA beta u (MHC class II molecules), to stimulate specif...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Experimental Medicine
سال: 1992
ISSN: 0022-1007,1540-9538
DOI: 10.1084/jem.176.2.605