Fluorescence polarization study of a salt bridge between a single-chain Fv and its antigen ribonuclease A.

abstract：:The protective antigen (PA(83)) of Bacillus anthracis is the dominant antigen in natural and vaccine-induced immunity to anthrax infection. Three human single-chain variable fragments (scFvs) against cell bound PA were isolated from an antibody phage display library. Specifically, the antibodies were evaluated for the...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Steiniger SC,Altobell LJ 3rd,Zhou B,Janda KD

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Humanization of rodent mAbs by CDR-grafting (also called "reshaping") is now a standard procedure for reducing immunogenicity and recruiting human effector functions. However, the design of the humanized mAb can sometimes prove circuitous. Attempts were made to humanize L-25, a mouse antibody against the human alpha-4...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Saldanha JW,Martin AC,Léger OJ

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the antibody (Ab) and cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) responses to gene gun (GG)-mediated DNA immunization via the intramuscular (i.m.) and intradermal (i.d.) routes. BALB/c mice were immunized five times at weekly intervals with plasmid DNA encoding enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP). EGFP product...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Ito K,Ito K,Shinohara N,Kato S

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I molecules usually present endogenous peptides at the cell surface. This is the result of a cascade of events involving various dedicated proteins like the peptide transporter associated with antigen processing (TAP) and the ER chaperone tapasin. However, alternative ways ...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Grommé M,Neefjes J

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular structure of protein and epitope mapping strategies are required to engineer the epitopes of a protein. In the present study, IgE binding regions of osmotin were identified and mutated to obtain hypoallergenic variant. The three dimensional (3-D) model of osmotin obtained by homology modeling comprised o...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Sharma P,Gaur SN,Goel N,Arora N

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T-lymphocyte proliferative responses were determined with peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL), peritoneal exudate lymphocytes (PEL) and lymph node lymphocytes (LNL) of guinea pigs immunized with horse cytochrome c (HCytc). The proliferative response of PBL activated by peptide 81-104 from animals immunized with HCytc w...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Wang KM,Reichlin M

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysozyme is an important component of the insect non-specific immune response against bacteria that is characterized by its ability to break down bacterial cell-walls. By searching an EST database from the fall armyworm, Spodoptera frugiperda (Negre et al., 2006), we identified five sequences encoding proteins of the ...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Chapelle M,Girard PA,Cousserans F,Volkoff NA,Duvic B

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NKG2D receptor-ligand interaction triggers NK cell-mediated cytolysis and IFN-gamma secretion. IFN-gamma produced by NK cells has been found to promote the interaction between NK cells and monocytes; however, the underlying mechanism remains elusive. We demonstrate here that IFN-gamma exclusively induced or upregulate...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Wang H,Ruan Z,Wang Y,Han J,Fu X,Zhao T,Yang D,Xu W,Yang Z,Wang L,Chen Y,Wu Y

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The unique species specificity of the bacterial cytolysin intermedilysin is explained by its requirement for the human complement regulator CD59 as the primary receptor. Binding studies using individual domains of intermedilysin mapped the CD59-binding site to domain 4 and swap mutants between human and rabbit (non-in...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Hughes TR,Ross KS,Cowan GJ,Sivasankar B,Harris CL,Mitchell TJ,Morgan BP

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transglutaminase 2 (TG2) is one of the enigmatic enzymes with important functional diversity. It plays an important role in several pathologies such as celiac disease (CD). In patients with active CD, the abnormal retrotranscytosis of IgA/gliadin complexes is mediated by Transferrin Receptor 1 (TfR1). This triad a...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Abbad L,Monteiro RC,Berthelot L

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 3-D complex structures of extracellular domain of human CD16 (FcgammaRIII) and hIgG1 or B88-9 were obtained by means of computer-guided molecular modeling, respectively. The binding epitopes were predicted and binding energy was calculated theoretically. The epitopes of human CD16 interacted with hIgG1 and B88-9 w...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Feng J,Xie Z,Yu M,Guo N,Shen B

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interleukin 1β (IL-1β) is a pro-inflammatory cytokine secreted by activated macrophages and monocytes. Previously, we have reported that bone morphogenetic protein-6 (BMP-6) induces inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) expression via IL-1β in macrophages. In the present study, we demonstrate that BMP-6 increases IL-...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Lee GT,Jung YS,Lee JH,Kim WJ,Kim IY

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Armenian hamsters were immunized with non-liganded, partially liganded or affinity-labeled anti-fluorescein Mab 4-4-20. Seventeen hybridoma producing monoclonal anti-4-4-20 antibodies were characterized from chemically-mediated fusions of immune hamster lymphocytes with murine Sp2/O-Ag14 myeloma cells. Distinct popula...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Weidner KM,Denzin LK,Kim ML,Mallender WD,Miklasz SD,Voss EW Jr

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Naturally developing human antibodies to the Epstein-Barr nuclear antigen recognize synthetic peptides containing sequences from the unusual glycine-alanine region of this protein. We tested antibody binding to a series of peptides of from five to 20 amino acids in length. Peptides as small as seven amino acids could ...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Rhodes G,Houghten R,Taulane JP,Carson D,Vaughan J

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The allergenic cross-reactivity of cytochromes c isolated from Kentucky bluegrass (KBG) and ryegrass (RG) pollens was demonstrated by the finding that both cytochromes elicited PCA reactions of comparable titers in rats sensitized with murine reaginic antiserum to either KBG or RG cytochrome c. However, allergenic dif...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Ekramoddoullah AK,Kisil FT,Sehon AH

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A recent report indicated that T200 molecules interact with elements of the cytoskeleton in BW5147 T lymphoma cells. We have confirmed the cytoskeletal association of T200 by examining nonionic detergent-soluble and detergent-insoluble fractions of murine T cell tumor cell lines, cloned cytotoxic T lymphocyte lines, a...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Taffs RE,Ewald SJ

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies suggest that CD8(+) T cells with down-regulated CD8 expression (CD3(+)CD8(low) T cells) represented as a distinct phenotype of CD8(+) T cells are increased and linked to disease severity in some chronically persistent infection, such as chronic HIV and parasite infection. However, the role of CD3(+)CD8(...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Ouyang L,Li X,Liang Z,Yang D,Gong F,Shen G,Weng X,Wu X

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In two recent articles published in Molecular Immunology, Steere and colleagues continue their search for an autoimmune mechanism of arthritis in patients who have failed short-course antibiotic therapy for Borrelia burgdorferi, the spirochetal agent of Lyme disease. As in previous attempts, the authors fail to elucid...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Stricker RB,Johnson L

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since secretion of IgE antibodies is known to be blocked by tunicamycin, the first aim of the present study was to determine at which step of glycosylation or processing secretion was restored. For this purpose, murine hybridoma cells secreting an anti beta-lactoglobulin IgE were incubated either in the presence of in...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Granato DA,Neeser JR

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the IL-6/IL-6 receptor system, we obtained five murine monoclonal antibodies against human IL-6, which neutralize its biological activity. We classified them into two groups (Type I mAb and Type II mAb) according to the epitopes they recognized. These two types of antibodies showed no difference in the ...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Shimamura T,Taki S,Honda H,Yokota M,Ito S,Takahara Y

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mannose-binding lectin (MBL) and the ficolins (Ficolin-1, Ficolin-2 and Ficolin-3) are soluble collagen-like proteins that are involved in innate immune defence. They bind sugar structures or acetylated compounds present on microorganisms and on dying host cells and they initiate activation of the lectin complement pa...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Garred P,Honoré C,Ma YJ,Munthe-Fog L,Hummelshøj T

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multilamellar lipid vesicles (MLV) composed of egg yolk lecithin (EYL) suppressed the response of bovine peripheral blood lymphocytes (BPBL) to phytohemagglutinin (PHA). EYL contains 18:1 and 18:2 as the major unsaturated phospholipids. Dioleoyllecithin (DOL; cis 9) MLV did not suppress BPBL blastogenesis. Dilinoeylle...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Fountain MW,Dees C,Weete JD,Schultz RD

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complement system is an essential component of the innate immune system that participates in elimination of pathogens and altered host cells and comprises an essential link between the innate and adaptive immune system. Soluble and membrane-bound complement regulators protect cells and tissues from unintended comp...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Ferreira VP,Pangburn MK,Cortés C

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human complement components C6 and C7 have been purified and characterized. Component C6 is a single-chain plasma protein of mol. wt 104,800 containing 3.8% carbohydrate and it has alanine as the amino terminal residue. Component C7 is a single-chain plasma protein of mol. wt 92,400 containing 6.4% carbohydrate and it...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Discipio RG,Gagnon J

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The capacity of α-galactosylceramide (α-GalCer) to act as an anti-cancer agent in mice through the specific stimulation of type I NKT (iNKT) cells has prompted extensive investigation to translate this finding to the clinic. However, low frequencies of iNKT cells in cancer patients and their hypo-responsiveness to rep...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Painter GF,Burn OK,Hermans IF

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When mouse dendritic cells (DCs) are isolated from tissues, purified and placed in a nutritive culture they die more rapidly than would be expected from their normal turnover in vivo. This can distort culture assays of DC function. We therefore tested several approaches to prolonging DC survival in culture. Of several...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Vremec D,Hansen J,Strasser A,Acha-Orbea H,Zhan Y,O'Keeffe M,Shortman K

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MAIT cells are innate-like T cells that are enriched in mucosal sites and tissues including adipose tissue and liver. They play an important role in immunity against microbial pathogens. Recently, it has been reported that MAIT cells could also be important in metabolic diseases and can be involved in setting up and m...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Toubal A,Lehuen A

更新日期：2021-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in patients and certain mouse models exhibits a strong sex bias. Additionally, in most patients, increased serum levels of type I interferon (IFN-α) are associated with severity of the disease. Because increased levels of B cell activating factor (BAFF) in SLE patients and mouse mode...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Panchanathan R,Choubey D

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amyloid-beta (Aβ) plaque accumulation in the brain is one of the hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Immunotherapy against Aβ was considered a potential strategy for reducing the Aβ load in the brain. However, none of the Aβ immunotherapies have produced clinically meaningful results to date, due to poor safety or ...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Fu L,Guo Y,Sun Y,Dong Y,Wu J,Yu B,Zhang H,Yu X,Wu H,Kong W

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The analysis of the antigenic structure of human interferon (IFN)-alpha 1 with a panel of monoclonal antibodies revealed four immunodominant regions. Three of them, recognized by 12 of 14 antibodies were mapped into the aminoterminal portion of IFN-alpha 1 around residues 31-38, 43-53 and 63-85. The region 31-85 prove...

journal_title：Molecular immunology

authors： Kontsek P,Borecký L,Kontseková E,Kolcunová A,Novák M,Zav'yalov VP,Maiorov VA

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00