T cell activation by antibody-like immunoreceptors: The position of the binding epitope within the target molecule determines the efficiency of activation of redirected T cells

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 178, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 4650-4657

  Hombach, Andreas A ^a   Schildgen, Verena ^a,d   Heuser, Claudia ^a   Finnern, Ricarda ^b,e   Gilham, David E ^c   Abken, Hinrich ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND APPLIED ECOLOGY IME   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e Building 22   (Belgium)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; EPITOPE; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIGEN BINDING; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

EID: 33947633597     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.178.7.4650     Document Type: Article

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