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. 2019 Jan 10;19:14. doi: 10.1186/s12862-019-1352-0

Table 1.

Number and percentage of predicted bound peptides per MHC molecule for the different bonobo (Papa-) and chimpanzee (Patr-) MHC class I loci

Locus Papa-A Papa-B Papa-C Patr-A Patr-B Patr-C Patr-A-like
No. of MHC molecules 20 27 11 41 78 38 4
Predicted bound peptides
minimum 458 0 618 51 0 620 40,365
maximum 80,337 34,689 40,976 104,816 239,570 181,572 40,365
average 29,657 3834 10,499 27,413 17,642 33,172 40,365
Percentage of average 5.63 2.27 2.36 8.63 14.63 8.77 1.45

The number of MHC molecules comprises the number of MHC molecules used in this study for each locus, which are all reported bonobo and chimpanzee MHC class I molecules