Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I and MHC class II proteins: conformational plasticity in antigen presentation

M Wieczorek, ET Abualrous, J Sticht… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Antigen presentation by major histocompatibility complex (MHC) proteins is essential for
adaptive immunity. Prior to presentation, peptides need to be generated from proteins that …

Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I and class II proteins: impact of polymorphism on antigen presentation

ET Abualrous, J Sticht, C Freund - Current Opinion in Immunology, 2021 - Elsevier
The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) loci are amongst the most polymorphic regions
in the genomes of vertebrates. In the human population, thousands of MHC gene variants …

MHC-II dynamics are maintained in HLA-DR allotypes to ensure catalyzed peptide exchange

ET Abualrous, S Stolzenberg, J Sticht… - Nature Chemical …, 2023 - nature.com
Presentation of antigenic peptides by major histocompatibility complex class II (MHC-II)
proteins determines T helper cell reactivity. The MHC-II genetic locus displays a large …

The role of molecular flexibility in antigen presentation and T cell receptor-mediated signaling

K Natarajan, J Jiang, NA May, MG Mage… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Antigen presentation is a cellular process that involves a number of steps, beginning with
the production of peptides by proteolysis or aberrant synthesis and the delivery of peptides …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Quantitative comparison of adaptive sampling methods for protein dynamics

E Hruska, JR Abella, F Nüske, LE Kavraki… - The Journal of chemical …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Adaptive sampling methods, often used in combination with Markov state models, are
becoming increasingly popular for speeding up rare events in simulation such as molecular …

Predicting the affinity of peptides to major histocompatibility complex class II by scoring molecular dynamics simulations

R Ochoa, A Laio, P Cossio - Journal of Chemical Information and …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Predicting the binding affinity of peptides able to interact with major histocompatibility
complex (MHC) molecules is a priority for researchers working in the identification of novel …

Incorporating the molecular mimicry of environmental antigens into the causality of autoimmune hepatitis

AJ Czaja - Digestive Diseases and Sciences, 2023 - Springer
Molecular mimicry between foreign and self-antigens has been implicated as a cause of
autoimmune hepatitis in experimental models and cross-reacting antibodies in patients. This …

The dominantly expressed class II molecule from a resistant MHC haplotype presents only a few Marek's disease virus peptides by using an unprecedented binding …

S Halabi, M Ghosh, S Stevanović, HG Rammensee… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Viral diseases pose major threats to humans and other animals, including the billions of
chickens that are an important food source as well as a public health concern due to …

Structural insights into human MHC-II association with invariant chain

N Wang, D Waghray, NA Caveney… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
The loading of processed peptides on to major histocompatibility complex II (MHC-II)
molecules for recognition by T cells is vital to cell-mediated adaptive immunity. As part of this …