MHC class II epitope predictive algorithms

M Nielsen, O Lund, S Buus, C Lundegaard - Immunology, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Major histocompatibility complex class II (MHC‐II) molecules sample peptides from the
extracellular space, allowing the immune system to detect the presence of foreign microbes …

Major histocompatibility complex linked databases and prediction tools for designing vaccines

SP Singh, BN Mishra - Human immunology, 2016 - Elsevier
Presently, the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) is receiving considerable interest
owing to its remarkable role in antigen presentation and vaccine design. The specific …

Genome based screening of epitope ensemble vaccine candidates against dreadful visceral leishmaniasis using immunoinformatics approach

G Singh, M Pritam, M Banerjee, AK Singh… - Microbial …, 2019 - Elsevier
Visceral leishmaniasis (VL) is a dreadful protozoan disease caused by Leishmania
donovani that severely affects huge populations in tropical and sub-tropical regions. The …

pDOCK: a new technique for rapid and accurate docking of peptide ligands to Major Histocompatibility Complexes

JM Khan, S Ranganathan - Immunome Research, 2010 - Springer
Background Identification of antigenic peptide epitopes is an essential prerequisite in T cell-
based molecular vaccine design. Computational (sequence-based and structure-based) …

Limitations of Ab Initio Predictions of Peptide Binding to MHC Class II Molecules

H Zhang, P Wang, N Papangelopoulos, Y Xu, A Sette… - PloS one, 2010 - journals.plos.org
Successful predictions of peptide MHC binding typically require a large set of binding data
for the specific MHC molecule that is examined. Structure based prediction methods promise …

PAAQD: Predicting immunogenicity of MHC class I binding peptides using amino acid pairwise contact potentials and quantum topological molecular similarity …

T Saethang, O Hirose, I Kimkong, VA Tran… - Journal of …, 2013 - Elsevier
Prediction of peptide immunogenicity is a promising approach for novel vaccine discovery.
Conventionally, epitope prediction methods have been developed to accelerate the process …

MHC class II binding prediction by molecular docking

M Atanasova, I Dimitrov, DR Flower… - Molecular …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Proteins of the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) bind self and nonself
peptide antigens or epitopes within the cell and present them at the cell surface for …

EpicCapo: epitope prediction using combined information of amino acid pairwise contact potentials and HLA-peptide contact site information

T Saethang, O Hirose, I Kimkong, VA Tran, XT Dang… - BMC …, 2012 - Springer
Background Epitope identification is an essential step toward synthetic vaccine development
since epitopes play an important role in activating immune response. Classical experimental …

[HTML][HTML] Prediction of MHC binding peptide using Gibbs motif sampler, weight matrix and artificial neural network

SP Singh, BN Mishra - Bioinformation, 2008 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The identification of MHC restricted epitopes is an important goal in peptide based vaccine
and diagnostic development. As wet lab experiments for identification of MHC binding …

[PDF][PDF] PREDICTION OF PEPTIDE BINDING TO SWINE LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN (SLA-1) PROTEINS BY MOLECULAR DOCKING

M Atanasova, I Dimitrov, I Doytchinova - PHARMACIA, 2017 - researchgate.net
Swine influenza is a highly contagious viral infection in pigs causing an acute upper
respiratory disease. The control of swine influenza by vaccination has become more difficult …