Soluble HLA technology as a strategy to evaluate the impact of HLA mismatches.

ABSTRACT: HLA class I incompatibilities still remain one of the main barriers for unrelated bone marrow transplantation (BMT); hence the molecular understanding of how to mismatch patients and donors and still have successful clinical outcomes will guide towards the future of unrelated BMT. One way to estimate the magnitude of polymorphisms within the PBR is to determine which peptides can be selected by individual HLA alleles and subsequently presented for recognition by T cells. The features (structure, length, and sequence) of different peptides each confer an individual pHLA landscape and thus directly shape the individual immune response. The elution and sequencing of peptides by mass spectrometric analysis enable determining the bona fide repertoire of presented peptides for a given allele. Th

SUBMITTER: Kunze-Schumacher H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4165401 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature