dgn-np:NP225428.RAnLbKy_EWDBMzgwW6QapaXLbWYfo4qzZhmfPTlpFYz0A130_provenance {
  dgn-np:NP225428.RAnLbKy_EWDBMzgwW6QapaXLbWYfo4qzZhmfPTlpFYz0A130_assertion dcterms:description "[We analyzed structural motifs of peptides bound to HLA-DR4 (DRB1*0405 and DRB1*0406) and DR9 (DRB1*0901) and found that: (a) AxxBxC motif where A, B, and C are hydrophobic, hydrophobic, and neutral, respectively, is important for binding to DR4; (b) Gln (Q) or Ser at position C allow high-affinity binding specific to DRB1*0406 which is strongly associated with insulin autoimmune syndrome; (c) among human insulin-derived peptide fragments, the TSICSLYQLE of the human insulin alpha chain, which is exposed only under reducing conditions, has the highest affinity specific to DRB1*0406 by binding with the IxxLxQ motif; (d) a short-term human insulin-specific T cell line recognizes a peptide fragment containing the IxxLxQ motif as a major T cell epitope; and (e) in the AxxB motif, where A and B need to be hydrophobic for binding to DR9, neutral Ser is exceptionally allowed at position B.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine."@en ;
    wi:evidence dgn-void:source_evidence_literature ;
    sio:SIO_000772 miriam-pubmed:9119530 ;
    prov:wasDerivedFrom dgn-void:befree-20140225 ;
    prov:wasGeneratedBy eco:ECO_0000203 .
  dgn-void:befree-20140225 pav:importedOn "2014-02-25"^^xsd:date .
  dgn-void:source_evidence_literature a eco:ECO_0000212 ;
    rdfs:comment "Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature."@en ;
    rdfs:label "DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE"@en .
}