Specificity and binding properties of a single-chain T cell receptor

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 256, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 859-869

  Schlueter, Carol J ^a   Schodin, Beth A ^a   Tetin, Sergey Y ^a,b   Kranz, David M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibodies; Circular dichroism; Escherichia coli expression; Peptide MHC; Single chain T cell receptor

Indexed keywords

T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; IMMUNOGLOBULIN STRUCTURE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR GENE;

ANIMALIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0029874109     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1996.0132     Document Type: Article

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