Communications Biology (Jan 2022)

The interplay between membrane topology and mechanical forces in regulating T cell receptor activity

  • Mohammad Ameen Al-Aghbar,
  • Ashwin K. Jainarayanan,
  • Michael L. Dustin,
  • Steve R. Roffler

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02995-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Al-Aghbar et al propose a TCR bending mechanosignal model that demonstrates how local mechanical membrane bending may influence T cell receptor binding events and thus T-cell activation.