The multiple sclerosis (MS) genetic risk factors indicate both acquired and innate immune cell subsets contribute to MS pathogenesis and identify novel therapeutic …

GP Parnell, DR Booth - Frontiers in immunology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is known to be a partially heritable autoimmune disease. The risk of
develo** MS increases from typically 1 in 1,000 in the normal population to 1 in 4 or so for …

Structure-based methods for binding mode and binding affinity prediction for peptide-MHC complexes

DA Antunes, JR Abella, D Devaurs… - Current topics in …, 2018 - ingentaconnect.com
Understanding the mechanisms involved in the activation of an immune response is
essential to many fields in human health, including vaccine development and personalized …

Environmental influencers, microRNA, and multiple sclerosis

EMA Mohammed - Journal of central nervous system …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a complex neurological disorder characterized by an aberrant
immune system that affects patients' quality of life. Several environmental factors have …

Dynamically driven allostery in MHC proteins: Peptide-dependent tuning of class I MHC global flexibility

CM Ayres, ET Abualrous, A Bailey, C Abraham… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
T cell receptor (TCR) recognition of antigenic peptides bound and presented by class I major
histocompatibility complex (MHC) proteins underlies the cytotoxic immune response to …

Epstein–Barr virus and Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis peptides are cross recognized by anti-myelin basic protein antibodies in multiple sclerosis …

G Mameli, D Cossu, E Cocco, S Masala, J Frau… - Journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Epstein–Barr virus and Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP) have
been associated to multiple sclerosis (MS). We searched for antibodies against the …

Current status and future challenges in T-cell receptor/peptide/MHC molecular dynamics simulations

B Knapp, S Demharter, R Esmaielbeiki… - Briefings in …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The interaction between T-cell receptors (TCRs) and major histocompatibility complex
(MHC)-bound epitopes is one of the most important processes in the adaptive human …

Multiepitope subunit vaccine to evoke immune response against acute encephalitis

N Kumar, D Sood, N Sharma… - Journal of Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Acute encephalitis syndrome outbreak has emerged as a major health concern on both
national and international scales. Brain inflammation/infections caused by Japanese …

The Carboxy Terminus of the Ligand Peptide Determines the Stability of the MHC Class I Molecule H-2Kb: A Combined Molecular Dynamics and Experimental Study

ET Abualrous, SK Saini, VR Ramnarayan, FT Ilca… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I molecules (proteins) bind peptides of eight to
ten amino acids to present them at the cell surface to cytotoxic T cells. The class I binding …

Identification of new inhibitors against human Great wall kinase using in silico approaches

U Ammarah, A Kumar, R Pal, NC Bal, G Misra - Scientific RepoRts, 2018 - nature.com
Microtubule associated serine/threonine kinase (MASTL) is an important Ser/Thr kinase
belonging to the family of AGC kinases. It is the human orthologue of Greatwall kinase (Gwl) …

Protective allele for multiple sclerosis HLA-DRB1* 01: 01 provides kinetic discrimination of myelin and exogenous antigenic peptides

A Mamedov, N Vorobyeva, I Filimonova… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Risk of the development of multiple sclerosis (MS) is known to be increased in individuals
bearing distinct class II human leukocyte antigen (HLA) variants, whereas some of them may …