Rational design of T cell receptors with enhanced sensitivity for antigen.

Enhancing the affinity of therapeutic T cell receptors (TCR) without altering their specificity is a significant challenge for adoptive immunotherapy. Current efforts have primarily relied on empirical approaches. Here, we used structural analyses to identify a glycine-serine variation in the TCR th...

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Main Authors: Rajshekhar Alli, Ziwei M Zhang, Phuong Nguyen, Jie J Zheng, Terrence L Geiger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-03-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3063236?pdf=render