About the Authors
- Dinler A. Antunes
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Contributed equally to this work with: Dinler A. Antunes, Gustavo F. Vieira
Affiliation Núcleo de Bioinformática do Laboratório de Imunogenética, Department of Genetics, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brasil
- Gustavo F. Vieira
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Contributed equally to this work with: Dinler A. Antunes, Gustavo F. Vieira
Affiliation Núcleo de Bioinformática do Laboratório de Imunogenética, Department of Genetics, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brasil
- Maurício M. Rigo
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Affiliation Núcleo de Bioinformática do Laboratório de Imunogenética, Department of Genetics, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brasil
- Samuel P. Cibulski
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Affiliation Núcleo de Bioinformática do Laboratório de Imunogenética, Department of Genetics, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brasil
- Marialva Sinigaglia
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Affiliation Núcleo de Bioinformática do Laboratório de Imunogenética, Department of Genetics, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brasil
- José A. B. Chies
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* E-mail: jabchies@terra.com.br
Affiliation Núcleo de Bioinformática do Laboratório de Imunogenética, Department of Genetics, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brasil
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: GFV. Performed the experiments: DAA. Analyzed the data: DAA GFV. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MMR SPC MS. Wrote the paper: DAA JABC. Participated in the study design and in the technical immunological aspects of the study: JABC. Performed the bioinformatic analyses: DAA. Conceived the study, participated in its design and coordination: GFV. Helped to draft the manuscript: GFV. Contributed to the revision of the manuscript: MMR. Contributed to the bioinformatic analyses: MMR. Verified the peptides binding affinities, performed the ASA analyses, and helped in the docking approach: SPC. Performed all the alignments and helped to search for MHC-I structures at PDB: MS.