Structural evidence for a germline-encoded T cell receptor-major histocompatibility complex interaction 'codon'

Nature Immunology

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 975-983

  Feng, Dan ^a   Bond, Christopher J ^a   Ely, Lauren K ^a   Maynard, Jennifer ^a,b   Garcia, K Christopher ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; BETA CHAIN; BINDING AFFINITY; CODON; COMPLEX FORMATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GERM LINE; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CRYSTALLIZATION; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, AUTOIMMUNE, EXPERIMENTAL; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS II; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 34548128306     PISSN: 15292908     EISSN: 15292916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ni1502     Document Type: Article

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