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Mitogens, superantigens, and nominal antigens elicit distinctive patterns of TCRB CDR3 diversity.
Human immunology - 1 Jan 2000
Currier J R, Deulofeut H, Barron K S, Kehn P J, Robinson M A
Abstract excerpt
The third complementarity-determining region (CDR3) is the only nongermline-encoded hypervariable region of the T cell receptor beta (TCRB) chain, and it is the region that has been predicted to confer fine specificity of the TCR for peptide-MHC complexes. For this reason analysis of TCRB CDR3 heterogeneity may provide insight into immune mechanisms operative in infectious and autoimmune diseases. PBMC stimulated...
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