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Susumu Tonegawa

Researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Publications -  419
Citations -  85400

Susumu Tonegawa is an academic researcher from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Gene & T-cell receptor. The author has an hindex of 150, co-authored 416 publications receiving 79814 citations. Previous affiliations of Susumu Tonegawa include University of Zurich & RIKEN Brain Science Institute.

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Presentation of endogenous viral proteins in association with major histocompatibility complex class II: On the role of intracellular compartmentalization, invariant chain and the TAP transporter system

TL;DR: The MHC class II‐associated presentation of endogenously synthesized membrane associated glycoprotein and the cytosolic nucleoprotein of lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus in professional antigen presenting cells (APC) of mice was efficient and could not be inhibited by chloroquine or leupeptin.
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Tap1-independent loading of class i molecules by exogenous viral proteins

TL;DR: It is found that recombinant glycoand nucleop protein from lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus and nucleoprotein of vesicular stomatitis virus were presented as efficiently by TAP1 −/− cells as by control cells, suggesting this new, TAP‐independent pathway of class I‐associated antigen presentation may be applicable for vaccine strategies.
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Somatic mutation creates diversity in the major group of mouse immunoglobulin kappa light chains.

TL;DR: It is concluded that, as in the lambda 1 light chains, the variant V regions are encoded by gene segments derived by a few somatic mutations from the corresponding germ line DNA.