Unraveling the mysteries of gammadelta T cell recognition.
gammadelta T cells are the misunderstood siblings of the antigen receptor family. A recent paper in Nature that describes the crystal structure of a gammadelta TCR should initiate a clearer understanding of these enigmatic cells.
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Department of Molecular Biology and Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA. wilson@scripps.edu
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