Ruth Porter & Julie Whelan 
Synthetic Peptides as Antigens [PDF ebook] 

Symposium on Synthetic Peptides as Antigens, held at the Ciba
Foundation, London, 4-6 June 1985
The subject of this symposium was proposed by P. Dukor and D. G.
Braun
Editors: Ruth Porter (Organizer) and Julie Whelan
G. L. Ada Introduction
J. H. Humphrey Regulation of in vivo immune responses: few
principles and much ignorance
Discussion
P. J. Lachmann, L. Strangeways, A. Vyakarnam and G. I. Evan
Raising antibodies by coupling peptides to PPD and immunizing
BCG-sensitized animals
Discussion
H. J. Dyson, K. J. Cross, J. Ostresh, R. A. Houghten, I. A.
Wilson, P. E. Wright and R. A. Lerner Selection by site-directed
antibodies of small regions of peptides which are ordered in
water
Discussion
M. H. V. Van Regenmortel, D. Altschuh and A. Klug Influence of
local structure on the location of antigenic determinants in
tobacco mosaic virus protein
Discussion
M. J. Crumpton The importance of conformation and of equilibria
in the interaction of globular proteins and their fragments with
antibodies
Discussion
A. B. Edmundson and K. R. Ely Three-dimensional analyses of the
binding of synthetic chemotactic and opioid peptides in the Mcg
light chain dimer
Discussion
H. M. Geysen, S. J. Rodda and T. J. Mason The delineation of
peptides able to mimic assembled epitopes
Discussion
V. Nussenzweig and R. S. Nussenzweig Experimental basis for the
development of a synthetic vaccine against Plasmodium falciparum
malaria sporozoites
Discussion
R. F. Anders, P-T. Shi, D. B. Scanlon, S. J. Leach, R. L.
Coppel, G. V. Brown, H-D. Stahl and D. J. Kemp Antigenic repeat
structures in proteins of Plasmodium falciparum
Discussion
M. Sela, R. Arnon and C. O. Jacob Synthetic peptides with
antigenic specificity for bacterial toxins
Discussion
V. C. Stevens Use of synthetic peptides as immunogens for
developing a vaccine against human chorionic gonadotropin
Discussion
D. R. Stanworth, D. S. Butt and G. Z. Hastings The use of
synthetic peptides in the delineation of immunoglobulin antigenic
epitopes and Fc effector functions
Discussion
G. I. Evan, D.C. Hancock, T. Littlewood and C. D. Pauza
Characterization of the human c-myc protein using antibodies
prepared against synthetic peptides
Discussion
S. S. Alkan and D. G. Braun Epitope mapping of human recombinant
interferon alpha molecules by monoclonal antibodies
Discussion
Final general discussion Reactivity of anti-peptide antibodies
with the parent proteins
The proportion of monoclonal antibodies reactive to
conformational or other linear sequences
High and low affinity antibodies and their roles
T-dependent and T-independent antigen presentation
G. L. Ada Chairman’s summing-up
Index of contributors
Subject index

Ruth Porter is the editor of Synthetic Peptides as Antigens, published by Wiley.
Julie Whelan is the editor of Synthetic Peptides as Antigens, published by Wiley.