Article
Effect of polymorphism of an MHC-linked transporter on the peptides assembled in a class I molecule.
Nature - 21 May 1992
Powis S J, Deverson E V, Coadwell W J, Ciruela A, Huskisson N S, Smith H, Butcher G W, Howard J C
Abstract excerpt
Short antigenic peptides bound in the groove of class I major histocompatibility complex molecules enable T cells to detect intracellular pathogens. It has been assumed that structural features of the class I molecule alone select which peptides are bound. It is now demonstrated that a complex polymorphism in one of the major histocompatibility complex-encoded putative peptide-transporter genes is associated with...
Topics
- Alleles
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- Carrier Proteins
- Cell Line
- Genes, MHC Class I
- Histocompatibility Antigens Class I
- Humans
- Kinetics
- Lymphoma, T-Cell
- Major Histocompatibility Complex
