Low-affinity CD4+ T cells are major responders in the primary immune response

oleh: Ryan J. Martinez, Rakieb Andargachew, Hunter A. Martinez, Brian D. Evavold

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2016-12-01

Deskripsi

MHC II tetramers are used to study T cell expansion but they preferentially bind high affinity T cell receptors. Here the authors show that T cells with low affinity receptors expand in number along with the T-cell repertoire and might therefore contribute more to the primary immune response than was thought.