Compensatory mechanisms allow undersized anchor-deficient class I MHC ligands to mediate pathogenic autoreactive T cell responses
Lamont, D., Mukherjee, G., Kumar, P.R., Samanta, D., McPhee, C.G., Kay, T.W.H., Almo, S.C., DiLorenzo, T.P., Serreze, D.V.(2014) J. Immunol. 193: 2135-2146
- PubMed: 25063871 
- DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1400997
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- PubMed Abstract: 
Self-reactive T cells must escape thymic negative selection to mediate pathogenic autoimmunity. In the NOD mouse model of autoimmune diabetes, several β cell-cytotoxic CD8 T cell populations are known, with the most aggressive of these represented by ...