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SUBMITTER: Lucchese G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2896900 | biostudies-literature | 2010
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of biomedicine & biotechnology 20100603
Using the currently available proteome databases and based on the concept that a rare sequence is a potential epitope, epitopic sequences derived from Mycobacterium tuberculosis were examined for similarity score to the proteins of the host in which the epitopes were defined. We found that: (i) most of the bacterial linear determinants had peptide fragment(s) that were rarely found in the host proteins and (ii) the relationship between low similarity and epitope definition appears potentially ap ...[more]