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Current Drug Discovery Technologies

Editor-in-Chief

ISSN (Print): 1570-1638
ISSN (Online): 1875-6220

Peptimmunology: Immunogenic Peptides and Sequence Redundancy

Author(s): Darja Kanduc

Volume 2, Issue 4, 2005

Page: [239 - 244] Pages: 6

DOI: 10.2174/157016305775202946

Price: $65

Abstract

Using short peptide fragments of proteins to elicit antibodies able to recognize the protein from which the peptide sequence was derived, is one of the main goals in immunotherapy today. Indeed, peptide-immunotherapy appears as an obliged way to obtain antibodies of predetermined specificity and exempt from the complications associated with whole cells/entire protein vaccines. However, effective peptide-immunotherapy remains an exciting theoretical speculation largely unrealized to date. The major obstacle in designing effective peptide vaccines is our incapacity to scientifically define peptide immunogenicity. This mini-review schematically describes: 1) the available methods to identify epitopic peptides; 2) the sequence redundancy concept as a possible basis for peptide immunogenicity.

Keywords: Peptide-antibody interaction, antigenicity, immunogenicity, peptide features, redundant sequences


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