A new type of metal recognition by human T cells: Contact residues for peptide-independent bridging of T cell receptor and major histocompatibility complex by nickel

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 197, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1345-1353

  Gamerdinger, Katharina ^a,b   Moulon, Corinne ^a,e   Karp, David R ^c   Van Bergen, Jeroen ^d   Koning, Frits ^d   Wild, Doris ^a   Pflugfelder, Ulrike ^a   Weltzien, Hans Ulrich ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF IMMUNOBIOLOGY AND EPIGENETICS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e Dictagene   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Antigen presentation; Hapten; Hypersensitivity; Mutation; T cell receptor

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; HAPTEN; HLA DR ANTIGEN; METAL; NICKEL; PEPTIDE; SUPERANTIGEN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CELL CLONING; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONJUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPERSENSITIVITY; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MOUSE; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; CELL LINE; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGIONS; HLA-DR ANTIGENS; HUMANS; NICKEL; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 0037515534     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.20030121     Document Type: Article

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