2 papers
q-bio.CB2008
Diversity against adversity: How adaptive immunity evolves potent antibodies
Muyoung Heo, Konstantin B. Zeldovich, Eugene I. Shakhnovich
How does immune system evolve functional proteins - potent antibodies - in such a short time? We address this question using a microscopic, protein-level, sequence-based model of h…
q-bio.BM2007
Emergence of clonal selection and affinity maturation in an ab initio microscopic model of immunity
Muyoung Heo, Konstantin B. Zeldovich, Eugene I. Shakhnovich
Mechanisms of immunity, and of the host-pathogen interactions in general are among the most fundamental problems of medicine, ecology, and evolution studies. Here, we present a mic…