T‐cell receptor binding affinities and kinetics: impact on T‐cell activity and specificity

JD Stone, AS Chervin, DM Kranz - Immunology, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The interaction between the T‐cell receptor (TCR) and its peptide–major histocompatibility
complex (pepMHC) ligand plays a critical role in determining the activity and specificity of …

Survey of the year 2007 commercial optical biosensor literature

RL Rich, DG Myszka - Journal of Molecular Recognition: An …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
In 2007, 1179 papers were published that involved the application of optical biosensors.
Reported developments in instrument hardware, assay design, and immobilization …

Structural and biophysical determinants of αβ T‐cell antigen recognition

JS Bridgeman, AK Sewell, JJ Miles, DA Price… - …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The molecular rules that govern MHC restriction, and allow T‐cells to differentiate between
peptides derived from healthy cells and those from diseased cells, remain poorly …

Conformational changes and flexibility in T-cell receptor recognition of peptide–MHC complexes

KM Armstrong, KH Piepenbrink… - Biochemical Journal, 2008 - portlandpress.com
A necessary feature of the immune system, TCR (T-cell receptor) cross-reactivity has been
implicated in numerous autoimmune pathologies and is an underlying cause of transplant …

Structural bases for the affinity-driven selection of a public TCR against a dominant human cytomegalovirus epitope

S Gras, X Saulquin, JB Reiser… - The Journal of …, 2009 - journals.aai.org
Protective T cell responses elicited along chronic human CMV (HCMV) infections are
sometimes dominated by CD8 T cell clones bearing highly related or identical public TCR in …

Structural and dynamic control of T‐cell receptor specificity, cross‐reactivity, and binding mechanism

BM Baker, DR Scott, SJ Blevins… - Immunological …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past two decades, structural biology has shown how T‐cell receptors engage
peptide/major histocompatibility complex (MHC) complexes and provided insight into the …

Disparate degrees of hypervariable loop flexibility control T-cell receptor cross-reactivity, specificity, and binding mechanism

DR Scott, OY Borbulevych, KH Piepenbrink… - Journal of molecular …, 2011 - Elsevier
αβ T-cell receptors (TCRs) recognize multiple antigenic peptides bound and presented by
major histocompatibility complex molecules. TCR cross-reactivity has been attributed in part …

Evolving concepts of specificity in immune reactions

HN Eisen, AK Chakraborty - Proceedings of the National …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
Our goal is to provide a perspective on current understanding of the origins of specificity in
immune reactions, a topic that has intrigued scientists for over a century. A fundamental …

A role for rebinding in rapid and reliable T cell responses to antigen

O Dushek, R Das, D Coombs - PLoS computational biology, 2009 - journals.plos.org
Experimental work has shown that T cells of the immune system rapidly and specifically
respond to antigenic molecules presented on the surface of antigen-presenting-cells and …

Peptide and peptide-dependent motions in MHC proteins: immunological implications and biophysical underpinnings

CM Ayres, SA Corcelli, BM Baker - Frontiers in Immunology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Structural biology of peptides presented by class I and class II MHC proteins has
transformed immunology, impacting our understanding of fundamental immune mechanisms …