Low-affinity CD4+ T cells are major responders in the primary immune response

MHC II tetramers are used to study T cell expansion but they preferentially bind high affinity T cell receptors. Here the authors show that T cells with low affinity receptors expand in number along with the T-cell repertoire and might therefore contribute more to the primary immune response than wa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ryan J. Martinez, Rakieb Andargachew, Hunter A. Martinez, Brian D. Evavold
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016-12-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13848