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Studies from Shiraz University, Department of Biology add new findings in the area of life sciences

Published in Genetics and Environmental Law Weekly, February 20th, 2010

Fresh data on life sciences are presented in the report 'Computational analysis of cysteine proteases (Clan CA, Family Cl) of Leishmania major to find potential epitopic regions.' According to recent research from Iran, "Leishmania is associated with a broad spectrum of diseases, ranging from simple cutaneous to invasive visceral leishmaniasis. Here, the sequences of ten cysteine proteases of types A, B and C of Leishmania major were obtained from GeneDB database."

"Prediction of MHC class I epitopes of these cysteine proteases was performed by NetCTL program version 1.2. In addition, by using BcePred server, different structural properties of the proteins were...

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