Highly cross-reactive T cell responses to myelin basic protein epitopes reveal a nonpredictable form of TCR degeneracy

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 162, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 6451-6457

  Loftus, Christine ^a   Huseby, Eric ^a   Gopaul, Priya ^a   Beeson, Craig ^a   Goverman, Joan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPITOPE; MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; EPITOPES, T-LYMPHOCYTE; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS II; HYBRIDOMAS; MICE; MICE, NEUROLOGIC MUTANTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYELIN BASIC PROTEINS; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PROTEIN BINDING; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS;

EID: 0033152659     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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