通过测序从MHC分子中解脱出来的自我的序列来揭示基因特异性基因

K Falk1, O Rötzschke, S Stevanović

  • 1Max-Planck-Institut für Biologie, Abteilung Immungenetik, Tübingen, Germany.

Nature
|May 23, 1991
PubMed
概括

研究人员精确地确定了主要基因相容性复合体 (MHC) 分子中的,揭示了与MHC I 类等位基因结合的特定规则,这对于免疫识别至关重要.

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