title: Superantigens. Gazing into the crystal ball.
abstract: The recently determined crystal structures of complexes between bacterial toxin 'superantigens' and MHC class II molecules shed light on the nature of the interactions between these two molecules.
authors.affiliation: Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, Department of Pathology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02111, USA.
authors.forename: P N
authors.initials: PN
authors.lastname: Hsu
authors.forename: B T
authors.initials: BT
authors.lastname: Huber
mesh_terms: D001427:Bacterial Toxins; D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray / Q000379:methods; D004768:Enterotoxins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D015798:HLA-DR1 Antigen / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D046911:Macromolecular Substances; D008961:Models, Structural; D011487:Protein Conformation; D017433:Protein Structure, Secondary; D013211:Staphylococcus aureus; D018089:Superantigens / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D001427:Bacterial Toxins; D004768:Enterotoxins; D015798:HLA-DR1 Antigen; D046911:Macromolecular Substances; D018089:Superantigens; C030107:enterotoxin F, Staphylococcal; C031818:enterotoxin B, staphylococcal