title: Peptides made to order.
abstract: How loading of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I-specific peptides by conserved degradation machinery is performed economically has now been resolved by Kanaseki et al. (2006) in this issue of Immunity: The individual MHC molecule serves as a template for its own ligand.
authors.affiliation: Department of Immunology, University of Tübingen, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany.
authors.forename: Hans-Georg
authors.initials: HG
authors.lastname: Rammensee
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D017951:Antigen Presentation / Q000276:immunology*; D000941:Antigens / Q000276:immunology / Q000378:metabolism*; D015395:Histocompatibility Antigens Class I / Q000276:immunology*; D006801:Humans; D010455:Peptides / Q000276:immunology / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D000941:Antigens; D015395:Histocompatibility Antigens Class I; D010455:Peptides