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Structure 1seb in the Protein Data Bank: Complex of the human mhc class ii glycoprotein hla-dr1 and the bacterial superantigen seb. Via https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbe/entry/pdb/1seb

Strominger Lab Research

Areas of Investigation

Disease-susceptibility genes in human autoimmunity

The role of MHC proteins and of products of other disease susceptibility genes in human autoimmunity, including multiple sclerosis, diabetes, pemphigus vulgaris, and ankylosing spondylitis

Immunological synapses in human natural killer cells

Activating and inhibiting immunological synapses in human natural killer cells: how they are formed and how they function, particularly in relation to lipid rafts.

Immunobiology of pregnancy: the roles of uterine decidual lymphocutes

Uterine decidual lymphocytes and their roles in the immunobiology of pregnancy. This project involves characterizing uterine lymphocyte populations and the many unusual proteins they produce in implantation and the maintenance of pregnancy.
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