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Skint1, the prototype of a newly identified immunoglobulin superfamily gene cluster, positively selects epidermal gammadelta T cells.
Nature genetics - 1 May 2008
Boyden Lynn M, Lewis Julia M, Barbee Susannah D, Bas Anna, Girardi Michael, Hayday Adrian C, Tigelaar Robert E, Lifton Richard P
Abstract excerpt
B cells, alphabeta T cells and gammadelta T cells are conserved lymphocyte subtypes encoding their antigen receptors from somatically rearranged genes. alphabeta T cells undergo positive selection in the thymus by engagement of their T cell receptors (TCRs) with self-peptides presented by major histocompatibility complex molecules. The molecules that select gammadelta T cells are unknown. Vgamma5+Vdelta1+ cells...
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