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Scratching the (T cell) surface

Joerg Ermann, Chan D Chung and C Garrison Fathman*

Author Affiliations

Division of Immunology and Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA

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Genome Biology 2003, 5:202 doi:10.1186/gb-2003-5-1-202

Published: 11 December 2003

Abstract

Using a genome-scale approach to study transcription levels in a human CD8+ T-cell clone, a recent study has suggested that the repertoire of molecules on the surface of T cells is close to being completely characterized.