Chapter title |
T-Cell Epitope Prediction
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Chapter number | 17 |
Book title |
Food Allergens
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Published in |
Methods in molecular biology, March 2017
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DOI | 10.1007/978-1-4939-6925-8_17 |
Pubmed ID | |
Book ISBNs |
978-1-4939-6923-4, 978-1-4939-6925-8
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Authors |
George N. Konstantinou, Konstantinou, George N. |
Editors |
Jing Lin, Marcos Alcocer |
Abstract |
An epitope is a part of an immunogenic protein that can be recognized by the immune system. The peptides that can be recognized by the T-cell receptors after a particular antigen has been intracellularly processed, bound to at least one MHC molecule and expressed on the surface of the antigen presenting cell as a MHC-peptide complex, are called a T-cell epitope. Individuals who have at least one MHC molecule able to most avidly bind to allergenic amino acid sequences from an allergen, and at the same time have the appropriate T-cell clone that can recognize this MHC-peptide complex, are expected to be genetically prone to allergic reactions against that allergen. This possibility can be examined in silico by utilizing modern computational techniques that are based on sophisticated mathematics and statistics. The design principles of these techniques are different and therefore variations in their predictions are expected. The available software programs that have been developed on this basis are able to combine the increasing amount and complexity of the available experimental data that have been organized in immunoinformatics databases to predict potential allergen T-cell epitopes. All relevant T-cell epitope prediction methods can be accessed online as a freeware. |
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