CD4 dimers constitute the functional component required for T cell activation

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 169, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 6261-6268

  Moldovan, Maria Cristina ^a,b   Yachou, Abdelkader ^a,f   Lévesque, Karine ^c   Wu, Hao ^d   Hendrickson, Wayne A ^e   Cohen, Eric A ^c   Sékaly, Rafick Pierre ^a,b,c  

^a CLIN RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^e Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^f HASSAN II UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; DIMER; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMERIZATION; FIBROBLAST; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; HELPER CELL; HEMATOPOIESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIGAND BINDING; OLIGOMERIZATION; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; BINDING SITE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL LINE; CELL STRAIN COS1; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD4; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL LINE; COS CELLS; DIMERIZATION; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MICE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; SELECTION (GENETICS); T-LYMPHOCYTES, HELPER-INDUCER; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0036885014     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.169.11.6261     Document Type: Article

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