title: Digital response in T cells: to be or not to be.
abstract: A recent study published in Immunity shows that foreign antigens elicit all-or-nothing T cell responses and that a single antigen is enough to trigger this digital cytokine secretion.
authors.affiliation: 1] National Center for Protein Science Shanghai, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China [2] University of Heidelberg, Institute of Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.
authors.forename: Felix
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Wertek
authors.affiliation: National Center for Protein Science Shanghai, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China.
authors.forename: Chenqi
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Xu
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D015496:CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes / Q000378:metabolism*; D000949:Histocompatibility Antigens Class II / Q000276:immunology*; D016176:T-Lymphocyte Subsets / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D000949:Histocompatibility Antigens Class II