Antigen Processing and Presentation Protocols

The processing and presentation of antigens by major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules is a crucial immunological phenomenon in infectious disease, malignancy, autoimmune disease, and transplantation. In Antigen Processing and Presentation Protocols, well-recognized and innovative experimen...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Solheim, Joyce C. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Totowa, NJ Humana Press 2001, 2001
Edition:1st ed. 2001
Series:Methods in Molecular Biology
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Collection: Springer Protocols Archive 1981-2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Identification of CD8+T-Cell-Stimulating Antigen Genes in cDNA Libraries
  • Generation of Antigen-Specific, LacZ-Inducible T-Cell Hybrids
  • Photolabeling the Transporter Associated with Antigen Processing
  • Application of One-Dimensional Isoelectric Focusing to Separate Different Major Histocompatibility Complex Class I Alleles and Determine Their Allelic Interactions with Transporter Associated with Antigen Processing (TAP)
  • Analysis of Major Histocompatibility Complex Class I Interactions with Endoplasmic Reticulum Proteins
  • Methods of Purification of Heat Shock Protein-Peptide Complexes for Use as Vaccines Against Cancers and Infectious Diseases
  • Random Peptide Libraries
  • Neural Network Method for Predicting Peptides that Bind Major Histocompatibility Complex Molecules
  • Analysis of T-Cell Response Using Altered Peptide Ligands
  • Assays of Thymic Selection Fetal Thymus Organ Culture and In Vitro Thymocyte Dulling Assay
  • Protocol for Diversion of a CD4+Response to theT-Helper 2 Cell Pathway
  • Quantitating Presentation of MHC Class I-Restricted Antigens
  • Purification of 20S Proteasomes
  • Use of Proteasome Inhibitors to Examine Processing of Antigens for Major Histocompatibility Complex Class I Presentation
  • Tracing the Route Taken by Peptides and Major Histocompatibility Complex Class I Molecules in Presentation of Exogenous Antigens
  • Functional Analysis of Antigen Processing and Major Histocompatibility Complex Class II-Restricted Presentation
  • Quantitation of Major Histocompatibility Complex Antigen Endocytosis Using Capture ELISA
  • In Vitro Generation of Functional Human and Murine Dendritic Cells
  • Genetic Engineering of Dendritic Cells Using Retrovirus-Based Gene Transfer Techniques
  • Use of Vaccinia Virus Expression Vectors to Investigate Antigen Processing and Presentation
  • Sindbis Virus-Based Vectors for the Study of Class I Antigen Presentation In Vitro and In Vivo
  • Precision Genotyping of Human Leukocyte Antigen-A, -B and -C Loci Via Direct DNA Sequencing