Mathematical and computational models of immune-receptor signalling

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 445-456

  Goldstein, Byron ^a   Faeder, James R ^a   Hlavacek, William S ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; FC RECEPTOR; LIGAND; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ACCURACY; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; BINDING KINETICS; CALCULATION; COMPLEX FORMATION; DEPHOSPHORYLATION; DISSOCIATION; HUMAN; LIGAND BINDING; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PARAMETER; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RECEPTOR BINDING; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SRC HOMOLOGY DOMAIN; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

EID: 2942588906     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri1374     Document Type: Review

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