Co-dependents: MR1-restricted MAIT cells and their antimicrobial function

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 14-19

  Gold, Marielle C ^a   Lewinsohn, David M ^a  

^a PORTLAND VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1 RELATED PROTEIN 1; PATTERN RECOGNITION RECEPTOR; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PROTEIN; RIBOFLAVIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIGEN PRESENTING CELL; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL POPULATION; HUMAN; INNATE IMMUNITY; MUCOSAL ASSOCIATED INVARIANT T CELL; NATURAL KILLER T CELL; NONHUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; T LYMPHOCYTE; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS I; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, MUCOSAL; MAMMALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; RIBOFLAVIN; SELECTION, GENETIC; T-LYMPHOCYTE SUBSETS;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 84871312235     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro2918     Document Type: Article

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