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Nature Immunology 9, 457 - 459 (2008)
doi:10.1038/ni0508-457

CD3alt epsilon: PeRuSing for positive selection

Jonathan S Maltzman1 & Gary A Koretzky2

  1. Jonathan S. Maltzman is in the Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA.
    e-mail: maltz@mail.med.upenn.edu
  2. Gary A. Koretzky is in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, the Department of Medicine and the Abramson Family Cancer Institute, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA.
    e-mail: koretzky@mail.med.upenn.edu


How engagement of surface T cell antigen receptors 'translates' into intracellular signal cascades remains vague. Genetic and biochemical experiments now allow modification of a model linking ligation of these receptors with CD3alt epsilon and other cytoplasmic signal-transduction 'machinery'.

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