Antigen Processing and Presentation Protocols

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Purification of 20S Proteasomes, Jill R. Beyette, Timothy Hubbell, and John J. Monaco. Use of Proteasome Inhibitors to Examine Processing of Antigens for Major Histocompatibility Complex Class I Presentation, Luis C. Anton, Jack R. Bennink, and Jonathan W. Yewdell. Tracing the Route Taken by Peptides and Major Histocompatibility Complex Class I Molecules in the Presentation of Exogenous Antigens, Christopher C. Norbury. Functional Analysis of Antigen Processing and Major Histocompatibility Complex Class II-Restricted Presentation, John D. Lich and Janice S. Blum. Quantitation of Major Histocompatibility Complex Antigen Endocytosis Using Capture ELISA, Diane N. Turvy and Janice S. Blum. In Vitro Generation of Functional Human and Murine Dendritic Cells, Seema S. Ahuja. Genetic Engineering of Dendritic Cells Using Retrovirus-Based Gene Transfer Techniques, Seema S. Ahuja. Use of Vaccinia Virus Expression Vectors to Investigate Antigen Processing and Presentation, E. John Wherry, Deepa Rajagopal, and Laurence C. Eisenlohr. Sindbis Virus-Based Vectors for the Study of Class I Antigen Presentation In Vitro and In Vivo, John M. Polo and Cornelia C. Bergmann. Precision Genotyping of Human Leukocyte Antigen-A, -B and -C Loci via Direct DNA Sequencing, Mary Ellexson-Turner, David Sidebottom, Sean Turner, Tara Bennett, and William H. Hildebrand. Photolabeling the Transporter Associated with Antigen Processing, Vashti G. Lacaille and Matthew J. Androlewicz. 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), Anne Neisig and Jacques Neefjes. Analysis of Major Histocompatibility Complex Class I Interactions with Endoplasmic Reticulum Proteins, Heth R. Turnquist and Joyce C. Solheim. Methods of Purification of Heat Shock Protein-Peptide Complexes for Use as Vaccines Against Cancers and Infectious Diseases,Pramod K. Srivastava and Navdeep S. Jaikaria. Random Peptide Libraries: A Tool for Analyzing the Peptide Specificity of Major Histocompatibility Complex Class I Molecules , James Stevens and Geoffrey W. Butcher. Neural Network Method for Predicting Peptides that Bind Major Histocompatibility Complex Molecules, Kamalakar Gulukota and Charles DeLisi. Analysis of T-Cell Response Using Altered Peptide Ligands, Florence Boisgerault, Natalie Anosova, Eugenia V. Fedoseyeva, Robert C. Tam, and Gilles Benichou. Assays of Thymic Selection: Fetal Thymus Organ Culture and an In Vitro Thymocyte Dulling Assay, Kristin A. Hogquist. Protocol for Diversion of a CD4+ Response to the T-Helper 2 Cell Pathway, Francesca Galbiati and Luciano Adorini. Quantitating Presentation of MHC Class I-Restricted Antigens, Weisan Chen, Jack R. Bennink, and Jonathan W. Yewdell. Identification of CD8+ T-Cell-Stimulating Antigen Genes in cDNA Libraries, Lisa M. Mendoza, Subramaniam Malarkannan, and Nilabh Shastri. Generation of Antigen-Specific, LacZ-Inducible T-Cell Hybrids, Subramaniam Malarkannan, Lisa M. Mendoza, and Nilabh Shastri. Index.