Specificity on a knife-edge: the αβ T cell receptor

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 787-795

  Clements, Craig S ^a   Dunstone, Michelle A ^a   Macdonald, Whitney A ^a   McCluskey, James ^b   Rossjohn, Jamie ^a  

^a Department of Physiology School of Biomedical Sciences   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD3 ANTIGEN; HLA ANTIGEN; HLA B8 ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN F(AB) FRAGMENT; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR ALPHA CHAIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR BETA CHAIN;

ANTIGEN STRUCTURE; BETA SHEET; COMPLEX FORMATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG PROTEIN BINDING; HLA SYSTEM; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOMODULATION; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX RESTRICTION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS I; HUMANS; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 34248586808     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2006.09.004     Document Type: Review

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