TCR recognition of peptide/MHC class II complexes and superantigens

EJ Sundberg, L Deng, RA Mariuzza - Seminars in immunology, 2007 - Elsevier
Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II molecules display peptides to the T cell
receptor (TCR). The ability of the TCR to discriminate foreign from self-peptides presented …

T cell receptor interaction with peptide/major histocompatibility complex (MHC) and superantigen/MHC ligands is dominated by antigen.

EW Ehrich, B Devaux, EP Rock, JL Jorgensen… - The Journal of …, 1993 - rupress.org
While recent evidence strongly suggests that the third complementarity determining regions
(CDR3s) of T cell receptors (TCRs) directly contact antigenic peptides bound to major …

Recognition of self-peptide–MHC complexes by autoimmune T-cell receptors

L Deng, RA Mariuzza - Trends in biochemical sciences, 2007 - cell.com
T cell receptors (TCR) recognize antigenic peptides displayed by MHC molecules. Whereas
T-cell recognition of foreign peptides is essential for immune defense against microbial …

Structural alterations in peptide–MHC recognition by self-reactive T cell receptors

KW Wucherpfennig, MJ Call, L Deng… - Current opinion in …, 2009 - Elsevier
The crystal structures of five autoimmune T cell receptor (TCR)–peptide–MHC complexes
reveal substantial structural alterations compared to antimicrobial TCRs. The two human …

Recombinant antibodies with MHC‐restricted, peptide‐specific, T‐cell receptor‐like specificity: new tools to study antigen presentation and TCR–peptide–MHC …

CJ Cohen, G Denkberg, A Lev, M Epel… - Journal of Molecular …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
The advent in recent years of the application of tetrameric arrays of class I peptide–MHC
complexes now enables us to detect and study rare populations of antigen‐specific CD8+ T …

[HTML][HTML] How a T cell receptor-like antibody recognizes major histocompatibility complex-bound peptide

T Mareeva, E Martinez-Hackert, Y Sykulev - Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2008 - ASBMB
We determined the crystal structures of the T cell receptor (TCR)-like antibody 25-D1. 16 Fab
fragment bound to a complex of SIINFEKL peptide from ovalbumin and the H-2K b molecule …

Shared fine specificity between T-cell receptors and an antibody recognizing a peptide/major histocompatibility class I complex.

A Stryhn, PS Andersen, LO Pedersen… - Proceedings of the …, 1996 - National Acad Sciences
Cytotoxic T cells recognize mosaic structures consisting of target peptides embedded within
self-major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I molecules. This structure has been …

Major histocompatibility complex class II‐associated peptides determine the binding of the superantigen toxic shock syndrome toxin‐1

A von Bonin, S Ehrlich, G Malcherek… - European journal of …, 1995 - Wiley Online Library
Superantigens bind to major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class II proteins and interact
with variable parts of the T cell antigen receptor (TCR) β‐chain. Cross‐linking the TCR with …

[HTML][HTML] A single autoimmune T cell receptor recognizes more than a million different peptides

L Wooldridge, J Ekeruche-Makinde… - Journal of Biological …, 2012 - ASBMB
The T cell receptor (TCR) orchestrates immune responses by binding to foreign peptides
presented at the cell surface in the context of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) …

Topology and affinity of T-cell receptor mediated recognition of peptide—MHC complexes

MM Davis, Y Chien - Current opinion in immunology, 1993 - Elsevier
Significant progress has been made on several long-standing issues regarding T-cell
receptor mediated recognition of antigen-MHC complexes. For one, early data suggest that …