Why do some T cell receptor cytoplasmic domains associate with the plasma membrane?

Frontiers in Immunology

Volumn 3, Issue FEB, 2012, Pages

  Anton van der Merwe, P ^a   Zhang, Hao ^a,b   Cordoba, Shaun Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Membrane association; Polybasic motifs; T cell receptor; Tyrosine phosphorylation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874066474     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16643224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2012.00029     Document Type: Article

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