Photocrosslinkable pMHC monomers stain T cells specifically and cause ligand-bound TCRs to be 'preferentially' transported to the cSMAC

Nature Immunology

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 674-680

  Xie, Jianming ^a   Huppa, Johannes B ^a,b   Newell, Evan W ^a   Huang, Jun ^a   Ebert, Peter J R ^a,c   Li, Qi Jing ^a,d   Davis, Mark M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c GENENTECH INC   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CROSS LINKING REAGENT; MONOMER; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; COVALENT BOND; CROSS LINKING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE AND MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNTHESIS; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, CD3; CELLS, CULTURED; COLORING AGENTS; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; CYTOSKELETON; LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 84862628815     PISSN: 15292908     EISSN: 15292916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ni.2344     Document Type: Article

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