Tailoring T-cell receptor signals by proximal negative feedback mechanisms

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 699-712

  Acuto, Oreste ^a   Bartolo, Vincenzo Di ^b   Michel, Frédérique ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTOR PROTEIN; ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD45 ANTIGEN; LIGAND; PHOSPHOLIPASE C GAMMA1; PROTEIN KINASE LCK; PROTEIN KINASE ZAP 70; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; PROTEIN TYROSINE PHOSPHATASE SHP 1; SCAFFOLD PROTEIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; TYROSINE;

CELLULAR IMMUNITY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RECEPTOR BINDING; RECEPTOR INTRINSIC ACTIVITY; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ANIMALS; FEEDBACK, BIOCHEMICAL; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; PHOSPHORIC MONOESTER HYDROLASES; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 50249105938     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri2397     Document Type: Review

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