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SUBMITTER: Adams EJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2768525 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Adams Erin J EJ Strop Pavel P Shin Sunny S Chien Yueh-Hsiu YH Garcia K Christopher KC
Nature immunology 20080530 7
It remains unclear whether gammadelta T cell antigen receptors (TCRs) detect antigens in a way similar to antibodies or alphabeta TCRs. Here we show that reactivity between the G8 and KN6 gammadelta TCRs and the major histocompatibility complex class Ib molecule T22 could be recapitulated, with retention of wild-type ligand affinity, in an alphabeta TCR after grafting of a G8 or KN6 complementarity-determining region 3-delta (CDR3delta) loop in place of the CDR3alpha loop of an alphabeta TCR. We ...[more]