Molecular architecture of the αβ T cell receptor-CD3 complex

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 49, 2014, Pages 17576-17581

  Birnbaum, Michael E ^a   Berry, Richard ^b   Hsiao, Yu Shan ^c,g   Chen, Zhenjun ^d   Shingu Vazquez, Miguel A ^b   Yu, Xiaoling ^c   Waghray, Deepa ^a   Fischer, Suzanne ^a   McCluskey, James ^d   Rossjohn, Jamie ^b,e   Walz, Thomas ^c,f   Garcia, K Christopher ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^e CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Small angle X ray scattering; T cell receptor

Indexed keywords

LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; ANTIGEN; LIGAND; PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIMERIZATION; EMBRYO; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIGHT SCATTERING; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OLIGOMERIZATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; CELL MEMBRANE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HEK293 CELL LINE; METABOLISM; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE; X RAY;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANTIGENS; CELL MEMBRANE; HEK293 CELLS; HUMANS; LIGANDS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RECEPTOR-CD3 COMPLEX, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; T-LYMPHOCYTES; X-RAYS;

EID: 84916613807     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1420936111     Document Type: Article

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