[HTML][HTML] Cancer neoantigens: challenges and future directions for prediction, prioritization, and validation

ES Borden, KH Buetow, MA Wilson… - Frontiers in oncology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Prioritization of immunogenic neoantigens is key to enhancing cancer immunotherapy
through the development of personalized vaccines, adoptive T cell therapy, and the …

Passive and active drug targeting: role of nanocarriers in rational design of anticancer formulations

RP Das, VV Gandhi, BG Singh… - Current pharmaceutical …, 2019 - ingentaconnect.com
Background: Cancer is the major public health problem in developing countries. The
treatment of cancer requires a multimodal approach and chemotherapy is one of them …

[HTML][HTML] PANDORA v2. 0: Benchmarking peptide-MHC II models and software improvements

FM Parizi, DF Marzella, G Ramakrishnan… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
T-cell specificity to differentiate between self and non-self relies on T-cell receptor (TCR)
recognition of peptides presented by the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) …

Role of ultraviolet mutational signature versus tumor mutation burden in predicting response to immunotherapy

TV Pham, A Boichard, A Goodman, P Riviere… - Molecular …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrophobic neoantigens are more immunogenic because they are better presented by the
major histocompatibility complex and better recognized by T cells. Tumor cells can evade …

Conformational variation in structures of classical and non‐classical MHCII proteins and functional implications

CA Painter, LJ Stern - Immunological reviews, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Recent structural characterizations of classical and non‐classical major histocompatibility
complex class II (MHCII) proteins have provided a view into the dynamic nature of the MHCII …

[HTML][HTML] Susceptibility to HLA-DM protein is determined by a dynamic conformation of major histocompatibility complex class II molecule bound with peptide

L Yin, P Trenh, A Guce, M Wieczorek, S Lange… - Journal of Biological …, 2014 - ASBMB
HLA-DM mediates the exchange of peptides loaded onto MHCII molecules during antigen
presentation by a mechanism that remains unclear and controversial. Here, we investigated …

BOLA‐DRB3 gene polymorphisms influence bovine leukaemia virus infection levels in Holstein and Holstein × Jersey crossbreed dairy cattle

HA Carignano, MJ Beribe, ME Caffaro… - Animal …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Bovine leukemia virus (BLV) infections, causing persistent lymphocytosis and lethal
lymphosarcoma in cattle, have reached high endemicity on dairy farms. We observed …

Enthalpy–entropy compensation and cooperativity as thermodynamic epiphenomena of structural flexibility in ligand–receptor interactions

A Ferrante, J Gorski - Journal of molecular biology, 2012 - Elsevier
Ligand binding is a thermodynamically cooperative process in many biochemical systems
characterized by the conformational flexibility of the reactants. However, the contribution of …

[HTML][HTML] Evolution of SARS-CoV-2-specific CD4+ T cell epitopes

M Brand, C Keşmir - Immunogenetics, 2023 - Springer
Vaccination clearly decreases coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) mortality; however,
they also impose selection pressure on the virus, which promotes the evolution of immune …

[HTML][HTML] Selection of vaccine-candidate peptides from Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis by in silico prediction, in vitro T-cell line proliferation, and in vivo …

K Lybeck, S Tollefsen, H Mikkelsen… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (MAP) is a global concern in modern
livestock production worldwide. The available vaccines against paratuberculosis do not offer …