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. 2015 Oct 20;5:14928. doi: 10.1038/srep14928

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Structure of the MHC I molecule (A) Ribbon representation of the MHC I molecule HLA-B*44:05 and its three components: a polymorphic heavy chain (yellow), non-covalently bound invariant β₂m (yellow) and peptide (red). The polymorphic residue 116 between B*4402 and B*4405 is shown in blue (B) Comparison of B*4402 (PDB: 1M6O, green) and B*4405 (PDB: 1SYV, blue) structures. RMSD between them of 0.3 Å. (C) Combined ribbon and surface representation of the MHC I molecule peptide binding groove.