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Positively selecting peptides: their job does not end in the thymus.

Peptides able to positively select major histocompatibility complex class II-restricted thymocytes have not yet been defined. Two new reports identify and ascribe important extrathymic functions to several positively selecting peptides for CD4+ T cells.

Publication date
November 1, 2009
Principal Investigators
Wucherpfennig KW, Gagnon E
PubMed reference
Nat. Immunol. 2009;10(11):1143-4
PubMed ID
19841646