T Cells and MHC |
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| Air date: | Wednesday, December 07, 2005, 3:00:00 PM |
| Category: | Wednesday Afternoon Lectures |
| Description: | It has long been known that T cells are obsessed with MHC proteins. Although we can suggest reasons WHY this might be so, it has been more difficult to find out HOW the obsession occurs. We have recently found a collection of T cell receptors which is even more interested in MHC proteins than the norm. Some of these receptors react with almost any kind of MHC protein with which they are confronted. We have studied these receptors and now suggest a mechanism which allows them to be so promiscuous.
For more information, visit http://www.hhmi.org/research/investigators/marrack.html The NIH Director's Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series includes weekly scientific talks by some of the top researchers in the biomedical sciences worldwide. |
| Author: | Philippa Marrack, National Jewish Medical and Research Center |
| Runtime: | 65 minutes |
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| CIT File ID: | 12956 |
| CIT Live ID: | 4254 |
| Permanent link: | http://videocast.nih.gov/launch.asp?12956 |