A T cell receptor Vα domain expressed in bacteria: Does it dimerize in solution?

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 184, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1251-1258

  Plaksin, Daniel ^a   Chacko, Susan ^b   McPhie, Peter ^b   Bax, Ad ^b   Padlan, Eduardo A ^b   Margulies, David H ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; ENVELOPE PROTEIN; HLA DR3 ANTIGEN; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; CHROMATOGRAPHY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIMERIZATION; HYBRIDOMA; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MOLECULAR CLONING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; EPITOPES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 0010470824     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.184.4.1251     Document Type: Article

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