High epitope expression levels increase competition between T cells

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 0948-0958

  Scherer, Almut ^a   Salathé, Marcel ^a   Bonhoeffer, Sebastian ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; CELL PROLIFERATION; EPITOPES;

ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELLS; CELL COMPETITION; CELL POPULATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION MODELING; EPITOPES EXPRESSION; EXPRESSION LEVELS; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INDIVIDUAL-BASED;

T-CELLS;

EPITOPE; HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 2;

ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTION CONTROL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STATISTICS; T LYMPHOCYTE; ANIMAL; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CELL COMMUNICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTIGEN PRESENTATION; CELL COMMUNICATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPITOPES, T-LYMPHOCYTE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS II; HUMANS; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 33748062992     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.0020109     Document Type: Article

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