Open AccessRedesigning Protein Function: Towards Synthetic Vaccines and MHC Mimetics
Author(s) -
Gabriele Tuchscherer
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
chimia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.387
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 2673-2424
pISSN - 0009-4293
DOI - 10.2533/chimia.1996.653
Subject(s) - major histocompatibility complex , lysozyme , computational biology , antigen , biology , function (biology) , histocompatibility , chemistry , microbiology and biotechnology , biochemistry , genetics , human leukocyte antigen
Template Assembled Synthetic Proteins (TASP) approach has been applied to mimic 3D-conformations of the hen egg white lysozyme antigen (HEL) and the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) and some of their biological properties.