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Insulin B chain functions as an effective competitor of antigen presentation via peptide homologies present in the thymus

The B chain of mammalian insulins contains appropriately spaced amino acids that predict recognition by T cells. However, all T cell clones from an HLA-DR1, Dw6 diabetic donor recognize epitopes associated with the A chain, and the B chain was found to inhibit these responses. Effective intramolecul...

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Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Rockefeller University Press 1989
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2189354/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2471779