Nonclassical binding of formylated peptide in crystal structure of the MHC class Ib molecule H2-M3
Wang, C.R., Castano, A.R., Peterson, P.A., Slaughter, C., Lindahl, K.F., Deisenhofer, J.(1995) Cell 82: 655-664
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- PubMed Abstract: 
H2-M3 is a class Ib MHC molecule of the mouse with a 10(4)-fold preference for binding N-formylated peptides. To elucidate the basis of this unusual specificity, we expressed and crystallized a soluble form of M3 with a formylated nonamer peptide, fM ...