ORIGINAL RESEARCH

T-cell receptor chain centricity in the primarily activated effectors and re-stimulated memory cells

Kalinina AA1, Kubekina MV2, Persiyantseva NA1, Bruter AV1,2, Khromykh LM1, Kazansky DB1
About authors

1 Blokhin National Medical Research Center of Oncology, Moscow, Russia

2 Center for Precision Genome Editing and Genetic Technologies for Biomedicine, Institute of Gene Biology, Moscow, Russia

Correspondence should be addressed: Dmitry B. Kazansky
Kashirskoye Shosse, 24, bld. 15, Moscow, 115478, Russia; ur.xednay@1yksnazak

About paper

Funding: the study was supported by the RSF grant No. 22-15-00342 (2022–2024).

Acknowledgements: the authors would like to express their gratitude to O. Britanova (Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry RAS) and K. Lupyr (Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology) for generation and bioinformatics analysis of the mouse TCR α-chain libraries.

Author contribution: Kalinina AA — study planning, literature review, experimental procedure, data analysis and interpretation, manuscript writing; Kubekina MV — cloning; Persiyantseva NA — transfection; Bruter AV — selection of oligonucleotides, cloning; Khromykh LM — study planning, literature review, data analysis and interpretation, manuscript editing; Kazansky DB — study planning, literature review, data analysis and interpretation, manuscript editing.

Compliance with ethical standards: the study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Blokhin National Medical Research Center of Oncology (protocol No. 3P-10.06.2022 dated 10 June 2022), it was conducted in strict compliance with the provisions of the Directive 2010/63/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 September 2010 on the protection of animals used for scientific purposes.

Received: 2024-10-09 Accepted: 2024-10-30 Published online: 2024-11-30
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