Thymic selection of T-cell receptors as an extreme value problem

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Košmrlj, Andrej ^a   Chakraborty, Arup K ^a   Kardar, Mehran ^a   Shakhnovich, Eugene I ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE IMMUNE RESPONSE; AMINO ACID COMPOSITIONS; ANALYTIC EXPRESSIONS; ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELLS; EXTREME VALUE; GENE PRODUCTS; STRONG BINDING; T CELL ACTIVATION; T CELLS; T LYMPHOCYTES; T-CELL RECEPTORS; THYMIC SELECTION;

AMINES; AMINO ACIDS; ORGANIC ACIDS; PROTEINS;

CELL MEMBRANES;

EID: 68849127884     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.068103     Document Type: Article

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