Highly Biased CDR3 Usage in Restricted Sets of β Chain Variable Regions During Viral Superantigen 9 Response

Superantigens encoded by the mouse mammary tumor virus can stimulate a large proportion of T cells through interaction with germline-encoded regions of the T cell receptor β chain like the hypervariable region 4 (HV4) loop. However, several lines of evidence suggest that somatically generated determ...

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Main Authors: Ciurli, Cristina, Posnett, David N., Sékaly, Rafick-Pierre, Denis, François
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: The Rockefeller University Press 1998
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2212092/