title: Discontinuous epitope prediction based on mimotope analysis.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Phage display is a widespread technique used to obtain peptide mimotopes selected by binding to a given monoclonal antibody in a similar way as the native epitope. However, the localization of the interaction site mimicked by the mimotopes on the surface of the antigen is not always a straightforward task. MIMOP is a computational tool developed with the aim of helping experimentalists to analyze a set of mimotope sequences and guide them in the identification of the mimicked region.
  
  
  RESULTS
  To predict potential epitopic regions, MIMOP integrates two different approaches combining two- and three-dimensional analyses: MimAlign starts from degenerated alignment analyses, and MimCons is based on consensus identification. The relevance and usefulness of the tool are illustrated by four use cases corresponding to real-life situations.
authors.affiliation: CNRS UMR 5160, Centre de Pharmacologie et Biotechnologie pour la Santé Faculté de Pharmacie, 15 Avenue Charles Flahault, BP 14491, 34093 Montpellier Cedex 5, France.
authors.forename: Violaine
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Moreau
authors.forename: Claude
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Granier
authors.forename: Sylvie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Villard
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Laune
authors.forename: Franck
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Molina
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001665:Binding Sites; D018604:Epitope Mapping / Q000379:methods*; D000939:Epitopes / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000276:immunology*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011485:Protein Binding; D016415:Sequence Alignment / Q000379:methods*; D020539:Sequence Analysis, Protein / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D000939:Epitopes