Publisher Summary Turns are a fundamental class of polypeptide structure and are defined
as sites where the peptide chain reverses its overall direction. In the past 20 years, the …

The functional significance of multiple cells--among lymphoid and nonlymphoid cells--
capable of having Ia molecules on their membranes must be critically addressed. Ia is …

a rather specific role for the terminal sequence in the fusion Page 1 Nature Vol. 289 29 January
1981 373 (100% in signals, 85% in hydrophobic tails), which suggests a rather specific role for …

A procedure is described for rapid concurrent synthesis on solid supports of hundreds of
peptides, of sufficient purity to react in an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. Interaction …

The immunogenic and antigenic determinants of a synthetic peptide and the corresponding
antigenic determinants in the parent protein have been elucidated. Four determinants have …

To determine the extent and nature of genetic variation present in independent isolates of
HTLV-IIIILAV, the nucleotlde sequences of the entire envelope gene and parts of gag and …

Laboratory Techniques in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Volume 6, Part 2: An
Introduction to Radioimmunoassay and Related Techniques discusses the fundamentals of …

Adeno-associated viruses (AAV) are ubiquitous in the human population (> 90% of adults
are seropositive) but have never been implicated as the cause of any disease. They were …

Recent advances in the preparation of synthetic peptide vaccines and the use of synthetic
peptides as probes of antigenic structure and function have led to renewed interest in the …

Reverse turns are structural features of peptides and proteins, involving three (ie, a y-
turn)'.'or four (ie, a B-turn)'consecutive residues, hallmarked by the folding back on itself of …