Friday, February 16, 2018

TCR the T cell receptors and the T cell cytokines

Hypothesis: The area of the infection matches up with the cytokine proliferating the T cells and the TLR they end up expressing.

il-7 is expressed in the stroma of the bone marrow and thymus during T cell develpment

il-7 is necessary for the TCR development

At the thymus a generic TLR is placed on the proliferating T cells

il-2 is expressed by T cells when the TCR recognizes HLA-A or HLA-B which contain viral DNA from mitochondrial or nuclear infections.

il-15 is expressed by T cells when the TCR recognizes the HLA-D or HLA-C of viral infections of the cytosol, the ER, or bacteria.

The T cells proliferating under il-2 will have TCR that bind HLA-A/B even stronger. 

il-2 mito/nuclear virus
il-15 cyto/ER virus or bacteria
il-7 generic




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