Genetic and structural basis for selection of a ubiquitous T cell receptor deployed in Epstein-Barr virus infection.

Despite the ∼10(18) αβ T cell receptor (TCR) structures that can be randomly manufactured by the human thymus, some surface more frequently than others. The pinnacles of this distortion are public TCRs, which exhibit amino acid-identical structures across different individuals. Public TCRs are thoug...

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Main Authors: John J Miles, Anna M Bulek, David K Cole, Emma Gostick, Andrea J A Schauenburg, Garry Dolton, Vanessa Venturi, Miles P Davenport, Mai Ping Tan, Scott R Burrows, Linda Wooldridge, David A Price, Pierre J Rizkallah, Andrew K Sewell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-11-01
Series:PLoS Pathogens
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/21124993/?tool=EBI