A single specific amino acid residue in peptide antigens is sufficient to activate memory CTL: Potential role of cross-reactive peptides in memory T cell maintenance

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 162, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 106-113

  Reali, Eva ^a,c   Guerrini, Remo ^a   Marastoni, Mauro ^a   Tomatis, Roberto ^a   Masucci, Maria Grazia ^b   Traniello, Serena ^a   Gavioli, Riccardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HLA A1 ANTIGEN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ANTIGENICITY; ARTICLE; CROSS REACTION; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LYMPHOCYTE CLONE; MEMORY CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO ACIDS; CELL LINE, TRANSFORMED; CROSS REACTIONS; CYTOTOXICITY, IMMUNOLOGIC; EPITOPES, T-LYMPHOCYTE; EPSTEIN-BARR VIRUS NUCLEAR ANTIGENS; GENE PRODUCTS, POL; HIV; HLA-A ANTIGENS; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PEPTIDES; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; T-LYMPHOCYTES, CYTOTOXIC; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN P53;

EID: 0032914970     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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