Insight into the basis of autonomous immunoreceptor activation

Trends in Immunology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 165-170

  Berry, Richard ^a   Chen, Zhenjun ^b   McCluskey, James ^b   Rossjohn, Jamie ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; CD3 ANTIGEN; PRE B CELL RECEPTOR; PRE T CELL RECEPTOR; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELL FUNCTION; CYTOPLASM; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; STOICHIOMETRY;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD3; HUMANS; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, B-CELL; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 79953072375     PISSN: 14714906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.it.2011.01.007     Document Type: Review

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