The structural basis of antibody-antigen recognition

I Sela-Culang, V Kunik, Y Ofran - Frontiers in immunology, 2013 - frontiersin.org
The function of antibodies (Abs) involves specific binding to antigens (Ags) and activation of
other components of the immune system to fight pathogens. The six hypervariable loops …

Survey of the year 2004 commercial optical biosensor literature

RL Rich, DG Myszka - Journal of Molecular Recognition: An …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
The year 2004 represents a milestone for the biosensor research community: in this year,
over 1000 articles were published describing experiments performed using commercially …

Stereotyped B-cell receptors in one-third of chronic lymphocytic leukemia: a molecular classification with implications for targeted therapies

A Agathangelidis, N Darzentas… - Blood, The Journal …, 2012 - ashpublications.org
Mounting evidence indicates that grouping of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) into
distinct subsets with stereotyped BCRs is functionally and prognostically relevant. However …

abYsis: integrated antibody sequence and structure—management, analysis, and prediction

MB Swindells, CT Porter, M Couch, J Hurst… - Journal of molecular …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract abYsis is a web-based antibody research system that includes an integrated
database of antibody sequence and structure data. The system can be interrogated in …

Is there a role for antigen selection in mantle cell lymphoma? Immunogenetic support from a series of 807 cases

A Hadzidimitriou, A Agathangelidis… - Blood, The Journal …, 2011 - ashpublications.org
We examined 807 productive IGHV-IGHD-IGHJ gene rearrangements from mantle cell
lymphoma (MCL) cases, by far the largest series to date. The IGHV gene repertoire was …

Immunoglobulin light chain repertoire in chronic lymphocytic leukemia

K Stamatopoulos, C Belessi, A Hadzidimitriou… - Blood, 2005 - ashpublications.org
Immunoglobulin kappa (IGK) and immunoglobulin lambda (IGL) light chain repertoire was
analyzed in 276 chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) cases and compared with the relevant …

Over 30% of patients with splenic marginal zone lymphoma express the same immunoglobulin heavy variable gene: ontogenetic implications

V Bikos, N Darzentas, A Hadzidimitriou, Z Davis… - Leukemia, 2012 - nature.com
We performed an immunogenetic analysis of 345 IGHV–IGHD–IGHJ rearrangements from
337 cases with primary splenic small B-cell lymphomas of marginal-zone origin. Three …

A different ontogenesis for chronic lymphocytic leukemia cases carrying stereotyped antigen receptors: molecular and computational evidence

N Darzentas, A Hadzidimitriou, F Murray, K Hatzi… - Leukemia, 2010 - nature.com
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is uniquely characterized by the existence of subsets of
cases with quasi-identical,'stereotyped'B-cell receptors (BCRs). Herein we investigate this …

The indistinguishability of epitopes from protein surface is explained by the distinct binding preferences of each of the six antigen-binding loops

V Kunik, Y Ofran - Protein Engineering, Design & Selection, 2013 - academic.oup.com
General protein–protein interfaces are known to be enriched, compared with other surface
patches, with amino acids that can form stabilizing interactions. However, several studies …

ARResT/AssignSubsets: a novel application for robust subclassification of chronic lymphocytic leukemia based on B cell receptor IG stereotypy

V Bystry, A Agathangelidis, V Bikos, LA Sutton… - …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: An ever-increasing body of evidence supports the importance of B cell receptor
immunoglobulin (BcR IG) sequence restriction, alias stereotypy, in chronic lymphocytic …