Peptide receptor docking
Section 1 : T. cruzi epitopes and receptors docking
We used HPEPDOCK (Zhou et al., 2018) to carry out protein-peptide docking. Here, the protein is one of the receptors listed in Table 1 and the peptides are the epitopes shortlisted through Vax-ELAN.
References
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Section 2: Epitope and Innate Immunity Receptor
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