MHCII

A Rudensky1, P Preston-Hurlburt, S C Hong

  • 1Section of Immunobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06510.

Nature
|October 27, 1991
PubMed
まとめ

CD4T細胞は,メジャー・ヒストコンパティビリティ・コンプレックス (MHC) クラスIIの分子上の異種タンパク質の断片を識別する. これらの断片は,典型的には13〜17のアミノ酸で,処理され,断片され,免疫反応に不可欠な自己ペプチドが優勢であることを明らかにします.

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