How TCRs bind MHCs, peptides, and coreceptors

MG Rudolph, RL Stanfield, IA Wilson - Annu. Rev. Immunol., 2006 - annualreviews.org
Since the first crystal structure determinations of αβ T cell receptors (TCRs) bound to class I
MHC-peptide (pMHC) antigens in 1996, a sizable database of 24 class I and class II …

Cellular responses to viral infection in humans: lessons from Epstein-Barr virus

AD Hislop, GS Taylor, D Sauce… - Annu. Rev. Immunol …, 2007 - annualreviews.org
Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) provides a useful model to study cellular immunity to a genetically
stable, persistent human virus. Different sets of proteins expressed during EBV's lytic and …

Clonally expanded CD8 T cells patrol the cerebrospinal fluid in Alzheimer's disease

D Gate, N Saligrama, O Leventhal, AC Yang, MS Unger… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease is an incurable neurodegenerative disorder in which neuroinflammation
has a critical function. However, little is known about the contribution of the adaptive immune …

A direct estimate of the human αβ T cell receptor diversity

TP Arstila, A Casrouge, V Baron, J Even… - Science, 1999 - science.org
Generation and maintenance of an effective repertoire of T cell antigen receptors are
essential to the immune system, yet the number of distinct T cell receptors (TCRs) expressed …

Overlap and Effective Size of the Human CD8+ T Cell Receptor Repertoire

HS Robins, SK Srivastava, PV Campregher… - Science translational …, 2010 - science.org
Diversity in T lymphocyte antigen receptors is generated by somatic rearrangement of T cell
receptor (TCR) genes and is concentrated within the third complementarity-determining …

Cytomegalovirus seropositivity drives the CD8 T cell repertoire toward greater clonality in healthy elderly individuals

N Khan, N Shariff, M Cobbold, R Bruton… - The Journal of …, 2002 - journals.aai.org
The deterioration in immune function with aging is thought to make a major contribution to
the increased morbidity and mortality from infectious disease in old age. One aspect of …

Human cytotoxic T lymphocyte responses to Epstein-Barr virus infection

AB Rickinson, DJ Moss - Annual review of immunology, 1997 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) provides one of the most informative systems with which
to study cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) responses in humans. The virus establishes a highly …

The molecular basis for public T-cell responses?

V Venturi, DA Price, DC Douek… - Nature Reviews …, 2008 - nature.com
Public T-cell responses, in which T cells bearing identical T-cell receptors (TCRs) are
observed to dominate the response to the same antigenic epitope in multiple individuals …

Structural determinants of T-cell receptor bias in immunity

SJ Turner, PC Doherty, J McCluskey… - Nature reviews …, 2006 - nature.com
Antigen-specific T-cell responses induced by infection, transplantation, autoimmunity or
hypersensitivity are characterized by cells expressing biased profiles of T-cell receptors …

Allo-HLA reactivity of virus-specific memory T cells is common

AL Amir, LJA D'Orsogna, DL Roelen… - Blood, The Journal …, 2010 - ashpublications.org
Graft-versus-host disease and graft rejection are major complications of allogeneic HLA-
mismatched stem cell transplantation or organ transplantation that are caused by …