immunology_search

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Search the LANL HIV Molecular Immunology Database for T-cell epitopes (CTL/CD8+ or T-helper/CD4+) or antibody binding sites — a different question from catnap_search_neutralization: this is about WHERE on the virus an immune response targets and WHICH HLA restricts it, not how potently an antibody neutralizes. Answers "what CTL epitopes are in HIV Gag", "which antibodies bind the CD4 binding site", "what HLA restricts this epitope", "find epitopes at position 296-331 of Env". Queried LIVE against LANL's own keyless JSON API (no ingest — always current). table selects which of the three response types you get: ctl (CD8+ T-cell), helper (CD4+ T-cell), or ab (antibody binding sites). At least one of mab_name, epitope, protein_name is required. Returns citation, keywords, HXB2 coordinates and (for ab) binding region/neutralizing classification for each match.