Objective To better characterize the genetic association between human leukocyte antigen (HLA) and anti-IgLON5 disease to explore auto-antigen binding associated HLA molecules their functional involvement in pathophysiology. Background Anti-IgLON5 is a rare, but likely underdiagnosed type of autoantibody encephalitis with heterogeneous clinical phenotype, including sleep, movement brainstem dys...

Abstract The Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has turned into a pandemic with about thirty million confirmed cases worldwide as of September 2020. Being an airborne infection, it can be catastrophic to populous countries like India. This study sets identify potential cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) epitopes in the SARS-CoV-2 Indian isolate which act effective vaccine ep...

background: it has been arguedthat unprecedented degree of human leukocyte antigen (hla) loci polymorphism within a population is requiredto avoid the devastating effects of infectious diseases. the present study was conducted to determine the associations between some of hla classi genes and the outcome of hepatitis b virus (hbv) infection.   methods: using sequential sampling method, 64 indiv...

background: a common human leukocyte antigen (hla) class ii allele, dqβ1*03:01, seems to be associated with bullous pemphigoid (bp) in caucasians whereas previous studies in other ethnic groups showed other hla class ii alleles as genetic predisposing factors for bp. objective: to investigate the association of hla class ii alleles and haplotypes with bp in iranian population. methods: fifty pa...

The immediate early protein ICP47 of the Herpes simplex virus is known to block the human transporter associated with antigen processing (TAP), thereby creating a TAP-deficient phenotype in any human cell transfected with the corresponding cDNA. Exploiting this inhibitory activity, we constructed a selection of human cell lines each co-expressing one of the cDNAs of human leukocyte antigen (HLA...

background and objective: the outcome of hepatitis b virus (hbv) infection may be influenced by host factors like human leukocyte antigen (hla). we have investigated hla-a and drb1 alleles in patients with persistent hepatitis b infection compared to subjects who had spontaneously recovered from hbv infection. to complete the findings of this study we performed another survey in certain hla all...

Abstract Compatibility for human leukocyte antigen (HLA) genes between transplant donors and recipients improves graft survival but prospective matching is rarely performed due to the vast heterogeneity of this gene complex. To reduce complexity, we have combined next-generation sequencing in silico mapping determine population frequencies probabilities 150 antibody-binding eplets across all 11...

APC: Antigen-Presenting cells; β2m: Beta2-Microglobulin; BMT: Bone Marrow Transplantation; DSA: Donor-Specific Antibody; ER: Endoplasmic Reticulum; GvHD: Graft-versus-Host Disease; HLA: Human Leukocyte Antigen; HSCT: Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation; IFN: Interferon; ILT2: Ig-like Transcript 2; ILT4: Ig-like Transcript 4; MHC: Major Histocompatibility Complex; MLR: Mixed Lymphocyte React...

To the Editor: The review on the importance of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) in infectious diseases by Singh et al. (Emerg Infect Dis 1997;3:41-9) failed to mention the potential role of human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-DM in conferring susceptibility to infectious diseases. HLA-DM is an MHC class II-like molecule essential for normal antigen processing and presentation (1). HLA-DM ha...