The bacterial superantigen and superantigen‐like proteins

JD Fraser, T Proft - Immunological reviews, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The bacterial superantigens are protein toxins that bind to major histocompatibility complex
class II and T‐cell receptor to stimulate large numbers of T cells. The majority are produced …

Bacterial superantigens

T Proft, JD Fraser - Clinical & Experimental Immunology, 2003 - academic.oup.com
Superantigens (SAgs) are the most powerful T cell mitogens ever discovered.
Concentrations of less than 0· 1 pg/ml of a bacterial superantigen are sufficient to stimulate …

CAPRI: a critical assessment of predicted interactions

J Janin, K Henrick, J Moult, LT Eyck… - Proteins: Structure …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
CAPRI is a communitywide experiment to assess the capacity of protein‐docking methods to
predict protein–protein interactions. Nineteen groups participated in rounds 1 and 2 of …

Assessment of blind predictions of protein–protein interactions: current status of docking methods

R Méndez, R Leplae, L De Maria… - … Structure, Function, and …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
The current status of docking procedures for predicting protein–protein interactions starting
from their three‐dimensional structure is assessed from a first major evaluation of blind …

[HTML][HTML] Staphylococcal superantigens in colonization and disease

SX Xu, JK McCormick - Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology, 2012 - frontiersin.org
Superantigens (SAgs) are a family of potent immunostimulatory exotoxins known to be
produced by only a few bacterial pathogens, including Staphylococcus aureus. More than …

Evaluation of protein docking predictions using Hex 3.1 in CAPRI rounds 1 and 2

DW Ritchie - Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
This article describes and reviews our efforts using Hex 3.1 to predict the docking modes of
the seven target protein–protein complexes presented in the CAPRI (Critical Assessment of …

Unconventional topology of self peptide–major histocompatibility complex binding by a human autoimmune T cell receptor

M Hahn, MJ Nicholson, J Pyrdol… - Nature …, 2005 - nature.com
Autoimmune diseases are caused by self-reactive lymphocytes that have escaped deletion.
Here we have determined the structure of the trimolecular complex for a T cell receptor …

ICM‐DISCO docking by global energy optimization with fully flexible side‐chains

J Fernández‐Recio, M Totrov… - … : Structure, Function, and …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The ICM‐DISCO (Docking and Interface Side‐Chain Optimization) protein–protein‐
docking method is a direct stochastic global energy optimization from multiple starting …

Staphylococcal and streptococcal superantigens: molecular, biological and clinical aspects

JE Alouf, H Müller-Alouf - International journal of medical microbiology, 2003 - Elsevier
Superantigens (SAgs) include a class of certain bacterial and viral proteins exhibiting highly
potent lymphocyte-transforming (mitogenic) activity towards human and or other mammalian …

Prophage exotoxins enhance colonization fitness in epidemic scarlet fever-causing Streptococcus pyogenes

S Brouwer, TC Barnett, D Ly, KJ Kasper… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The re-emergence of scarlet fever poses a new global public health threat. The capacity of
North-East Asian serotype M12 (emm 12) Streptococcus pyogenes (group A Streptococcus …