Design five amino acid peptides that could be bound by a single hypothetical class I MHC protein. The MHC proteins binds peptides that are 10 amino acids long and have two anchor residues, tyrosine and isoleucine, at positions 2 and 5

What will be an ideal response?


Answer: Answers will vary because different amino acids can be used in the motif sequence. However, all five peptides should fit this pattern:
X-Y-X-X-I-X-X-X-X-X

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