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Germ-line elimination of electric charge on pre-T-cell receptor (TCR) impairs autonomous signaling for beta-selection and TCR repertoire formation.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 16 Nov 2010
Ishikawa Eri, Miyake Yasunobu, Hara Hiromitsu, Saito Takashi, Yamasaki Sho
Abstract excerpt
The pre-T-cell receptor (TCR) is crucial for the early T-cell development, but the ligand for pre-TCR remains unidentified. We recently proposed a model that pre-TCR complexes oligomerize spontaneously through interactions of the pre-TCRα chain. To investigate the mechanism underlying this ligand-independent signaling in vivo, we established knock-in mice that express a pre-TCRα mutant lacking charged amino acids...
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