Ken-Ichi Hanada1, Jonathan W Yewdell, James C Yang

  • 1Surgery Branch, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, 9000 Rockville Pike, Building10, Room 2B42, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA. khanada@nih.gov

Nature
|January 16, 2004
PubMed
概括

细胞毒性T淋巴细胞 (CTLs) 通过检测由MHC I类分子呈现的特定来识别癌细胞. 这项研究揭示了一种新的机制,涉及脊椎动物中的蛋白质拼接,以产生这些癌症特异性.

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