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α-helix mimicry of a β-turn11Edited by J. Wells

It is shown here that the three-dimensional arrangement of the amino acids in an RGDF β-turn (sequence involved in cell adhesion) resembles that of an α-helix with a shuffled RGDF …

Mer, G.

Substituting nonpeptidic spacers for the T cell receptor-binding part of class I major histocompatibility complex-binding peptides.

X-ray diffraction studies as well as structure-activity relationships indicate that the central part of class I major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-binding nonapeptides …

Krebs, S.

Mutation of cis-proline 207 in mitochondrial creatine kinase to alanine leads to increased acid stability.

We show that the mutation of an uncharged residue far from the active site to another uncharged residue can have effects on the active site without disturbing the overall structure …

Forstner, M.

Synthesis of Oligo(3-hydroxybutanoate)(OHB)-Containing Peptides with High Binding Affinity to a Class-I-MHC Protein

In the center of the immune system, there are major histocompatibility (MHC) protein/nonapeptide complexes which are recognized by T cell.

Seebach, D.

Binding of rationally designed non-natural peptides to the human leukocyte antigen HLA-B*2705

High-affinity ligands of non-peptidic nature, binding to the class I major histocompatibility complex protein HLA B*2705 whose expression is strongly linked to the pathogenesis of …

Krebs, S.

An HLA-B27 polymorphism (B*2710) that is critical for T-cell recognition has limited effects on peptide specificity

Abstract: The B*2710 subtype differs from the HLA-B27 prototype (B*2705) only by having Glu instead of Val at position 152, in the α2 helix of the peptide-binding site.

García, R.

Fine specificity of antigen binding to two class I major histocompatibility proteins (B*2705 and B*2703) differing in a single amino acid residue.

Starting from the X-ray structure of a class I major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-encoded protein (HLA-B*2705), a naturally presented self-nonapeptide and two synthetic …

Rognan, D.

Structure-Permeation Relations of Met-enkephalin Peptide Analogues on Absorption and Secretion Mechanisms in Caco-2 Monolayers

AbstractDue to the low effective permeabilities of peptides at many absorption sites, their structure-permeation relations are of high interest.

Lang, v. B.

A pseudo-particle approach for studying protein-ligand models truncated to their active sites

A molecular dynamics method has been developed to describe the structural and dynamic properties of protein-ligand complexes that are truncated to their active sites.

Kern, P.

Molecular dynamics and structure-based drug design for predicting non-natural nonapeptide binding to a class I MHC protein

Starting from the known three-dimensional structure of the class I major histocompatibility complex-encoded HLA-B*2705 protein, three non-natural nonapeptides were designed to fit …

Scapozza, L.