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Hepatitis C Virus
Research on hepatitis C virus discussed by scientists at University of Bari
July 16th, 2008
According to recent research published in the journal Amino Acids, "Our labs are focused on identifying amino acid sequences having the ability to react specifically with the functional binding site of a complementary antibody." "Our epitopic definition is based on the analysis of the similarity level of antigenic amino acid sequences to the host proteome. Here, the similarity profile to the human proteome of an HCV E1 immunodominant epitope, i.e. the HCV E1(315-328)HRMAWDMMMNWSPT sequence, led to i) characterizing the immunoreactive HCV E1 315-328 region as a sequence endowed with a low level of similarity to human proteins; ii) defining 2 contiguous...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2008-07-16)
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