Publication Date:
1994-04-08
Description:
Most human peripheral blood gamma delta T lymphocytes respond to hitherto unidentified mycobacterial antigens. Four ligands from Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain H37Rv that stimulated proliferation of a major human gamma delta T cell subset were isolated and partially characterized. One of these ligands, TUBag4, is a 5' triphosphorylated thymidine-containing compound, to which the three other stimulatory molecules are structurally related. These findings support the hypothesis that some gamma delta T cells recognize nonpeptidic ligands.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Constant, P -- Davodeau, F -- Peyrat, M A -- Poquet, Y -- Puzo, G -- Bonneville, M -- Fournie, J J -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1994 Apr 8;264(5156):267-70.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department III, Laboratoire de Pharmacologie et de Toxicologie Fondamentales du CNRS, Toulouse, France.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8146660" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Antigens, Bacterial/chemistry/*immunology/isolation & purification
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Cells, Cultured
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Chromatography, Ion Exchange
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Humans
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Ligands
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*Lymphocyte Activation
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Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis/*immunology
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Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta/*immunology
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T-Lymphocyte Subsets/*immunology
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Thymine Nucleotides/analysis/chemistry/*immunology/isolation & purification
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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