Publication Date:
1989-05-19
Description:
The staphylococcal toxins are responsible for a number of diseases in man and other animals. Many of them have also long been known to be powerful T cell stimulants. They do not, however, stimulate all T cells. On the contrary, each toxin reacts with human T cells bearing particular V beta sequences as part of their receptors for major histocompatibility complex protein-associated antigen. The specificity of these toxins for V beta s puts them in the recently described class of superantigens and may account for the differential sensitivity of different individuals to the toxic effects of these proteins.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Kappler, J -- Kotzin, B -- Herron, L -- Gelfand, E W -- Bigler, R D -- Boylston, A -- Carrel, S -- Posnett, D N -- Choi, Y -- Marrack, P -- AI-17134/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- AI-18785/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- AI-22295/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- etc. -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1989 May 19;244(4906):811-3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Denver, CO.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2524876" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Antibodies
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Antigens, CD3
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Antigens, CD8
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Antigens, Differentiation, T-Lymphocyte/analysis
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Bacterial Toxins/immunology/*pharmacology
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HLA Antigens/analysis
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Humans
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Immunoassay
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Lymphocyte Activation
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Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/analysis/*immunology
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*Staphylococcus
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T-Lymphocytes/*immunology
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
