Studying the copy number of ribosomal protein L7/L12.

Studying the copy number of ribosomal protein L7/L12 was performed using monoclonal antibody 3G9 to the linear epitope on the C-terminal domain of this protein from Escherichia coli. Immunohistochemical study showed that Agrobacterium tumefaciens ribosomes include 6 copies of protein L7/L12. Our results suggest that the copy number of this protein has an evolutionary role.

[Linear B-cell epitope prediction].

Combination of sliding window method with physical properties scale of amino acids is a classical approach for linear B-cell epitope prediction. But it was shown that accuracy of these methods is poor. We reviewed classical and new algorithms of epitope prediction and present own implementation of one of them.