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1: Annu Rev Immunol. 1992;10:97-121.Click here to read Links

Antigen receptors on B lymphocytes.

Max-Planck-Institut für Immunobiologie, Freiberg, Germany.

Recent studies on the structure of the B cell antigen receptor demonstrate that the membrane-bound and antigen-binding immunoglobulin molecules are noncovalently associated with a heterodimer of two novel transmembrane proteins. The B cell antigen receptor is thus a multicomponent receptor complex whose structural features are similar to those of the T cell antigen receptor complex. Cross-linking of the B cell antigen receptor results in rapid tyrosine phosphorylation of substrate proteins. This suggests that the B cell receptor belongs to a subgroup of the tyrosine kinase receptor family with a noncovalently associated src-like tyrosine kinase.

PMID: 1591006 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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