Amino acid substitutions in the putative MHC class II "dimer of dimers" interface inhibit CD4+ T cell activation.

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Activation of T lymphocytes is dependent on multiple ligand-receptor interactions. The possibility that TCR dimerization contributes to T cell triggering was raised by the crystallographic analysis of MHC class II molecules. The MHC class II molecules associated as double dimers, and in such a way that two TCR (and two CD4 molecules) could bind simultaneously. Several subsequent studies have lent support to this...

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