Title |
Understanding the complexity and malleability of T‐cell recognition
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Published in |
Immunology & Cell Biology, January 2015
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DOI | 10.1038/icb.2014.112 |
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Authors |
John J Miles, James McCluskey, Jamie Rossjohn, Stephanie Gras |
Abstract |
T cells are the master regulators of immune system function, continually walking the biological tightrope between adequate host defence and accidental host pathology. Tolerance is maintained or broken through an intricate structural interplay between the T-cell receptor (TCR) and major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecule cradling peptide antigens (p). Recent advances in structural biology have shown that the TCR/pMHC interface is surprising precise and extraordinarily malleable. We have seen that seemingly minor changes in the TCR/pMHC interface can abrogate function, as well as substantial conformational changes before and after TCR docking. Our understanding of T-cell biology has also been altered with the knowledge that MHC molecules can bind not only peptides, but also an array of natural and synthetic compounds. Here, we review some examples of the precision and flexibility intrinsic to the TCR/p/MHCI axis.Immunology and Cell Biology advance online publication, 13 January 2015; doi:10.1038/icb.2014.112. |
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