Interrogating the repertoire: Broadening the scope of peptide-MHC multimer analysis

Nature Reviews Immunology

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 551-558

  Davis, Mark M ^a   Altman, John D ^a,b   Newell, Evan W ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; PEPTIDE; POLYMER; TETRAMER;

ANTIBODY LABELING; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; BIOTINYLATION; COMPLEX FORMATION; EPITOPE MAPPING; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY;

ANIMALS; CANCER VACCINES; CELL TRACKING; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; EPITOPE MAPPING; EPITOPES, T-LYMPHOCYTE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; IMMUNOLOGIC TECHNIQUES; IMMUNOTHERAPY, ADOPTIVE; IMMUNOTOXINS; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MICE; PEPTIDES; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; VACCINES;

EID: 79960835109     PISSN: 14741733     EISSN: 14741741     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nri3020     Document Type: Review

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