Researchers discuss disrupting NKG2A:HLA-E interactions for enhanced anti-cancer immunity
A new editorial titled "Strategies to disrupt NKG2A:HLA-E interactions for improved anti-cancer immunity" has been published in Oncotarget.
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Biological Factors: News and Research on HLA-E Antigens
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Researchers show 'cryptic' viral peptide drives large part of immune response in influenza A virus infection
Conventional wisdom lays out two major roles for the major histocompatibility complex (MHC): Class I MHC (MHC-I) displays peptide fragments of proteins from within the cell on the cell surface and elicits a response from ...
Oct 12, 2023
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Study: The human body may possess a secret weapon against SARS-CoV-2
An obscure class of molecules, part of the vast system that helps the human body distinguish "self" from "non-self," may also hold the key to stopping SARS-CoV-2 from commandeering healthy cells, scientists have found in ...
Specific immune response to Epstein-Barr virus discovered
Medical science has not yet been able to explain why the Epstein-Barr virus triggers infectious mononucleosis (IM) in some people with initial infections and not in others. But now, a research team led by Elisabeth Puchhammer-Stöckl, ...
Jan 19, 2023
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Researchers identify immune cell that helps kill bladder cancer tumors
Mount Sinai researchers have made two important discoveries about the mechanism by which bladder cancer cells foil attacks from the immune system. The research, published in Cancer Cell in September, could lead to a new therapeutic ...
Sep 12, 2022
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