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After this lecture you will:
Some other creative ways of combining antibody domains to form novel engineered proteins are shown on Nico Mertens' web site.
For more information on modelling class II MHC molecules, see:
Swain, M.T., Brooks, A.J. and Kemp, G.J.L. (2001) An automated approach to modelling class II MHC alleles and predicting peptide binding. Proceedings of the Second IEEE International Symposium on Bio-Informatics and Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp 81-88. (PDF, 328k)
For further information on the antibody database described in the lecture, see:
Kemp, G.J.L., Jiao, Z., Gray, P.M.D. and Fothergill, J.E. (1994) Combining Computation with Database Access in Biomolecular Computing. In Litwin, W. and Risch, T. (eds.), Applications of Databases: Proceedings of the First International Conference, ADB-94, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (vol. 819), Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp 317-335.
An antibody modelling system that uses the P/FDM antibody database is described in:
Ritchie, D.W. and Kemp, G.J.L. (1997) Using an Object-Oriented Database to Model Antibody Fv Fragments, University of Aberdeen, Technical Report AUCS/TR9702.
This is an extended version of:
Ritchie, D.W. and Kemp, G.J.L. (1997) Modeling Antibody Side Chain Conformations Using Heuristic Database Search. In Gaasterland, T., Karp, P., Karplus, K., Ouzounis, C., Sander, C. and Valencia, A. (eds.) Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, AAAI Press, pp 237-240.