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Generation and characterisation of CD1d tetramer produced by a lentiviral expression system.
Journal of immunological methods - 31 Jan 2008
Li Demin, Chen Nan, McMichael Andrew J, Screaton Gavin R, Xu Xiao-Ning
Abstract excerpt
The alpha-galactosylceramide (alphaGalCer)-loaded CD1d tetramer remains the most powerful tool in identifying natural killer T (NKT) cells, a subpopulation of T cells that express an unusual semi-invariant T cell antigen receptor, and mediate a variety of proinflammatory and immunoregulatory functions. The difficulty of generating large amounts of the alphaGalCer-CD1d tetramer has limited its availability and...
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