Viruses attack nearly every living organism on Earth. To do so, they rely on highly specialized proteins that recognize and ...
A research team of the University Medical Center Mainz has succeeded in observing for the first time how G protein-coupled receptors in living cells actually respond to activating substances. The ...
Among patients with mycosis fungoides (MF) and Sézary syndrome (SS), the T-cell receptor (TCR) clonal Vb20 segment was significantly associated with advanced-stage disease, folliculotropism with ...
A bitter taste has always been considered a warning signal, devoted to protecting us from ingesting potentially harmful ...
The gray portion of this schematic represents a nanodisc, where for the first time researchers were able to replicate the native membrane environment (red dots) of a T-cell receptor (cyan). One of the ...
Recently these monocyte-derived alveolar macrophages, or Mo-AMs, were identified as key drivers of lung fibrosis disease progression. However, the mechanisms of their pro-fibrotic behavior and ...
One of the most exciting advances in cancer treatments in the past decade is the development of T cell immunotherapies, in which a patient's own immune system is trained to recognize and attack ...