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Cancer Immune Evasion Through Loss of MHC Class I Antigen Presentation.
Frontiers in immunology - 1 Jan 2021
Dhatchinamoorthy Karthik, Colbert Jeff D, Rock Kenneth L
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Major histocompatibility class I (MHC I) molecules bind peptides derived from a cell's expressed genes and then transport and display this antigenic information on the cell surface. This allows CD8 T cells to identify pathological cells that are synthesizing abnormal proteins, such as cancers that are expressing mutated proteins. In order for many cancers to arise and progress, they need to evolve mechanisms to...
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