The structure of the T cell antigen receptor

Annual Review of Immunology

Volumn 14, Issue , 1996, Pages 563-590

  Bentley, Graham A ^a   Mariuzza, Roy A ^b  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

antigen and superantigen recognition; complementarity determining regions; T cell activation; T cell receptor structure

Indexed keywords

T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ALLOSTERISM; ALPHA CHAIN; ANIMAL CELL; ANTIGEN BINDING; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; BETA CHAIN; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DIMERIZATION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN STRUCTURE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 0029935523     PISSN: 07320582     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.immunol.14.1.563     Document Type: Review

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