Unique Interplay between Sugar and Lipid in Determining the Antigenic Potency of Bacterial Antigens for NKT Cells

Unique Interplay between Sugar and Lipid in Determining the Antigenic Potency of Bacterial Antigens for NKT Cells

Structural and biophysical studies reveal the induced-fit mechanism underlying the stringent specificity of invariant natural killer T cells for unique glycolipid antigens from the pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae.

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Main Authors: Girardi, Enrico, Yu, Esther Dawen, Li, Yali, Tarumoto, Norihito, Pei, Bo, Wang, Jing, Illarionov, Petr, Kinjo, Yuki, Kronenberg, Mitchell, Zajonc, Dirk M.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2011
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3206013/

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3206013/

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