Volume 24, No 3, Mar 2014

ISSN: 1001-0602 
EISSN: 1748-7838 2018 
impact factor 17.848* 
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Volume 24 Issue 3, March 2014: 265-266

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS

Digital response in T cells: to be or not to be

Felix Wertek^1,2 and Chenqi Xu¹

¹National 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
²University of Heidelberg, Institute of Pharmacy and Molecular Biotechnology, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany Correspondence: Chenqi Xu,(cqxu@sibcb.ac.cn)

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.

10.1038/cr.2014.5

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