20 August 2024
Interior Redesigners
Triggered to attack, T cells of the immune system bind their target molecule via a specific receptor on their surface – named? you guessed it, the T-cell receptor. This interaction sparks activity reorganising the T cell's inner protein scaffold (cytoskeleton) enabling optimal contact and function. Here are revealed the roles of cellular enzymes (LMK1 & SSH1) in orchestrating the structural remodelling and T-cell activation
Read the published research article here
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- Video from work by Álvaro Gómez-Morón and Sergio Alegre-Gómez, and colleagues
- Department of Immunology, Ophthalmology and ENT, School of Medicine, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Video originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution – NonCommercial – NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
- Published in Communications Biology, July 2024
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