Antibodies directed to antigens secreted by murine epithelioid macrophages modulate BCG-induced granulomata by Mario Mariano, Tania Aguiar, Celia R. W. Carneiro, Edilberto Postol, Venânclo A. F. Alves, Ricardo Ribeiro-dos-Santos

“…The immunoglobulin fraction of this antiserum reacted, by immunocytochemical methods, with epitopes in the cell membrane of macrophages adherent to coverslips subcutaneously implanted for 14 days; but not for 5 days. …”
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Transient Complete Recovery of Chronic Refractory Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura after Treatment with Monoclonal Antibody Targeting SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein by Pooja Gogia, Yiqing Xu

“…Studies on autoantigens on the platelets suggested epitopes to be located predominantly on the GP IIb/IIIa receptor or integrin αIIbβ3, though the trigger for the development of ITP is unclear. …”
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The Origins, Specificity, and Potential Biological Relevance of Human Anti-IgG Hinge Autoantibodies by Randall J. Brezski, David M. Knight, Robert E. Jordan

“…Human anti-IgG hinge (HAH) autoantibodies constitute a class of immunoglobulins that recognize cryptic epitopes in the hinge region of antibodies exposed after proteolytic cleavage, but do not bind to the intact IgG counterpart. …”
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Heavy chain-only antibodies with a stabilized human VH in transgenic chickens for therapeutic antibody discovery by Christine N. Vuong, Kevin M. Reynolds, Gerry S. Rivera, Baisen Zeng, Zahra Karimpourkalou, Manith Norng, Yulei Zhang, Robayet Chowdhury, Darlene Pedersen, Melissa Pantoja, Ellen Collarini, Swetha Garimalla, Shelley Izquierdo, Eric G. Vajda, Brett Antonio, Devendra B. Srivastava, Marie-Cecile van de Lavoir, Yasmina Abdiche, William Harriman, Philip A. Leighton

“…These birds produce robust immune responses, consisting of antigen-specific antibodies targeting diverse epitopes with a range of affinities. Biophysical attributes are favorable, with good developability profiles and low predicted immunogenicity.…”
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Malaria: Factors affecting disease severity, immune evasion mechanisms, and reversal of immune inhibition to enhance vaccine efficacy. by Xin-Zhuan Su, Fangzheng Xu, Rachel V Stadler, Awet Alem Teklemichael, Jian Wu

“…Current vaccine research focuses on identifying conserved and protective epitopes, developing multivalent vaccines (including the whole parasite), and using more powerful adjuvants. …”
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Efficient reduction of β-lactoglobulin allergenicity in milk using Clostridium tyrobutyricum Z816 by Qianru Zhao, Yuwei Wang, Zhengming Zhu, Quanyu Zhao, Liying Zhu, Ling Jiang

“…The hydrolyzed peptides were identified by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) and analyzed by molecular modeling, which indicated that C. tyrobutyricum Z816 could effectively degrade the antigenic epitopes of β-LG. Finally, the concentration and digestibility of β-LG in actual samples was quantified using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and gastrointestinal digestion simulation experiments. …”
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Cow milk αs1-casein induces allergic responses in a mouse model of atopy by Guangyu Wang, Xiaofeng Yu, Yanjun Cong, Linfeng Li

“…We had identified αs1-casein and its epitopes in previous studies. The present study aimed to evaluate the allergic mechanism of αs1-casein in a BALB/c mouse model. …”
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Prediction of IL4 Inducing Peptides by Sandeep Kumar Dhanda, Sudheer Gupta, Pooja Vir, G. P. S. Raghava

“…It was also observed that IL4 inducing and noninducing epitopes differ in compositional and motif pattern. …”
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Recombinant Pvs48/45 antigen expressed in E. coli generates antibodies that block malaria transmission in Anopheles albimanus mosquitoes. by Myriam Arévalo-Herrera, Andrés F Vallejo, Kelly Rubiano, Yezid Solarte, Catherin Marin, Angélica Castellanos, Nora Céspedes, Sócrates Herrera

“…Results indicate the presence of reactive epitopes in the Pvs48/45 recombinant product that induce antibodies with TB activity. …”
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Humatch - fast, gene-specific joint humanisation of antibody heavy and light chains by Lewis Chinery, Jeliazko R. Jeliazkov, Charlotte M. Deane

“…Humatch’s optimization toward specific genes and good VH/VL pairing increases the chances that final designs will be stable and express well and reduces the chances of immunogenic epitopes forming between the two chains. Humatch’s training data and source code are provided open-source.…”
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Staphylococcal SSL5 Binding to Human Leukemia Cells Inhibits Cell Adhesion to Endothelial Cells and Platelets by Annemiek M. E. Walenkamp, Jovanka Bestebroer, Ingrid G. J. Boer, Roeline Kruizinga, Henk M. Verheul, Jos A. G. van Strijp, Carla J. C. de Haas

“…Presence of sialyl Lewis x epitopes on PSGL-1 was crucial for its interaction with SSL5. …”
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The Role of Aggregates of Therapeutic Protein Products in Immunogenicity: An Evaluation by Mathematical Modeling by Liusong Yin, Xiaoying Chen, Abhinav Tiwari, Paolo Vicini, Timothy P. Hickling

“…Our analysis indicates that aggregates could contribute to T cell-dependent immune response by inducing high affinity epitopes which may not be present in the nonaggregated TPP and/or by enhancing danger signals to break tolerance. …”
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FREQUENCY OF RH-D NEGATIVE & WEAK D IN PAKISTANI POPULATION by Muhammad Usman et al

“…Molecular genetic of RHD gene revealed that weak D antigen is a Rh-D phenotype that possesses less numbers of D antigen epitopes on surface of red cells. These individuals usually labeled RhD -ve by conventional testing but when transfused to RhD –ve person, it can elicit antibody production. …”
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Pair combinations of human monoclonal antibodies fully protected mice against bunyavirus SFTSV lethal challenge. by Bang Li, Xiang-Rong Qin, Jia-Chen Qu, Guan-du Wu, Wen-Kang Zhang, Ze-Zheng Jiang, Pan-Pan Liu, Ze-Min Li, Tian-Mei Yu, Chuan-Min Zhou, Yong-Jun Jiao, Xue-Jie Yu

“…Notably, the pair combination of antibodies (1B2 and 4-5, 1B2 and 1F6) that recognized distinct epitopes protected 100% of mice against SFTSV lethal challenge. …”
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Interferon-α promotes HLA-B-restricted presentation of conventional and alternative antigens in human pancreatic β-cells by Alexia Carré, Fatoumata Samassa, Zhicheng Zhou, Javier Perez-Hernandez, Christiana Lekka, Anthony Manganaro, Masaya Oshima, Hanqing Liao, Robert Parker, Annalisa Nicastri, Barbara Brandao, Maikel L. Colli, Decio L. Eizirik, Jahnavi Aluri, Deep Patel, Marcus Göransson, Orlando Burgos Morales, Amanda Anderson, Laurie Landry, Farah Kobaisi, Raphael Scharfmann, Lorella Marselli, Piero Marchetti, Sylvaine You, Maki Nakayama, Sine R. Hadrup, Sally C. Kent, Sarah J. Richardson, Nicola Ternette, Roberto Mallone

“…Thus, the inflammatory milieu of insulitis may skew the autoimmune response toward alternative epitopes presented by HLA-B, hence recruiting T cells with a distinct repertoire that may be relevant to T1D pathogenesis.…”
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Screening of Insertion Sites and Tags on EV-A71 VP1 Protein for Recombinant Virus Construction by Miaomiao Kang, Xiangyi Li, Xiaohong Li, Rui Yu, Shuo Zhang, Jingjing Yan, Xiaoyan Zhang, Jianqing Xu, Buyong Ma, Shuye Zhang

“…Furthermore, recombinant infectious EV-A71 strains tagged with S and V5 epitopes were successfully rescued, and the stability of these tags was verified. …”
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Flow Cytometric Detection of p38 MAPK Phosphorylation and Intracellular Cytokine Expression in Peripheral Blood Subpopulations from Patients with Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases by Athanasios Mavropoulos, Dimitrios P. Bogdanos, Christos Liaskos, Timoklia Orfanidou, Theodora Simopoulou, Efterpi Zafiriou, Lazaros I. Sakkas, Eirini I. Rigopoulou

“…Such protocols suffer from the difficulties to accurately detect intracellular cytokines and surface epitopes of infrequent cell subpopulations, which are removed by methanol. …”
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Applying the Concept of Peptide Uniqueness to Anti-Polio Vaccination by Darja Kanduc, Candida Fasano, Giovanni Capone, Antonella Pesce Delfino, Michele Calabrò, Lorenzo Polimeno

“…Sequence analyses produced a set of consensus epitopic peptides potentially able to generate specific anti-polio immune responses exempt from cross-reactivity with the human host. …”
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Influence of Different ECM-Like Hydrogels on Neurite Outgrowth Induced by Adipose Tissue-Derived Stem Cells by E. Oliveira, R. C. Assunção-Silva, O. Ziv-Polat, E. D. Gomes, F. G. Teixeira, N. A. Silva, A. Shahar, A. J. Salgado

“…The efficacy of three natural hydrogels, gellan gum (functionalized with a fibronectin peptide), collagen, and a hydrogel rich in laminin epitopes (NVR-gel) in promoting neuritogenesis (alone and cocultured with ASCs), was evaluated in the present study. …”
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A Novel Bimodal Imaging Agent Targeting HER2 Molecule of Breast Cancer by Wei Lv, Yamei Shen, Hengli Yang, Rui Yang, Wenbin Cai, Jian Zhang, Lijun Yuan, Yunyou Duan, Li Zhang

“…Targeting it with functional molecule, nanobubble can adhere selectively to cellular epitopes and receptors outside the vasculature via enhanced permeability and retention (EPR) effect of tumor blood vessel. …”
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