Immunological Accessory Molecules

Stephen H Benedict, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA
Kelli M Cool, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA
Abby L Dotson, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA
Marcia A Chan, Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri, USA

Published online: December 2007

DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0000923.pub2

Immunological accessory molecules are proteins expressed on the surface of immune cells that can modulate in a positive or negative manner the ability of the cell to develop or to perform one or more of its functions. Thus, accessory molecules are critical to the success or failure of controlling the immune response to foreign antigens such as infectious agents or organ transplants, the aberrant response to self-antigens as in the case of autoimmune disease or the response to tumours.

Keywords: adhesion molecules; Fc receptors; tetraspanins; cytokine; chemokine; pattern recognition

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Related Sub-Topics:

Cytokines | Immunoregulation | Cells of the Immune System | Cell Membranes | Membrane Proteins
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Benedict, Stephen H, Cool, Kelli M, Dotson, Abby L, and Chan, Marcia A(Dec 2007) Immunological Accessory Molecules. In: eLS. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester. http://www.els.net [doi: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0000923.pub2]