The synapse and cytolytic machinery of cytotoxic T cells

Current Opinion in Immunology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 308-313

  Jenkins, Misty R ^a   Griffiths, Gillian M ^a  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERCELLULAR ADHESION MOLECULE 1; LYSOSOME ASSOCIATED MEMBRANE PROTEIN; LYSOSOME ASSOCIATED MEMBRANE PROTEIN 1; LYSOSOME ASSOCIATED MEMBRANE PROTEIN 2; LYSOSOME ASSOCIATED MEMBRANE PROTEIN 3; NATURAL KILLER CELL RECEPTOR NKG2D; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTIN FILAMENT; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL KILLING; CELL MEMBRANE; CENTROSOME; CYTOLYSIS; CYTOSKELETON; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; EXOCYTOSIS; IMMUNOLOGICAL SYNAPSE; MEMBRANE BINDING; MEMBRANE POLARIZATION AND DEPOLARIZATION; MICROTUBULE; MOLECULAR DOCKING; MOLECULAR IMAGING; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TARGET CELL; ANIMAL; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOTOXICITY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; MOUSE; SECRETORY VESICLE;

ANIMALS; CYTOSKELETON; CYTOTOXICITY, IMMUNOLOGIC; IMMUNOLOGICAL SYNAPSES; MICE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; SECRETORY VESICLES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T-LYMPHOCYTES, CYTOTOXIC;

EID: 77953545815     PISSN: 09527915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coi.2010.02.008     Document Type: Review

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