Models of self-peptide sampling by developing T cells identify candidate mechanisms of thymic selection.

Conventional and regulatory T cells develop in the thymus where they are exposed to samples of self-peptide MHC (pMHC) ligands. This probabilistic process selects for cells within a range of responsiveness that allows the detection of foreign antigen without excessive responses to self. Regulatory T...

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Main Authors: Iren Bains, Hisse M van Santen, Benedict Seddon, Andrew J Yates
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3723501?pdf=render