Nurturing Life Sciences
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#Unit 4. Cell Communication and Cell Signaling
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Class II MHC glycoproteins expressed predominantly on pAPCs, where they primarily present exogenous antigenic peptides to CD4+ T cells.
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HLA-G
These are present on fetal cells at the maternal-fetal interface and are credited with inhibiting rejection by maternal CD8+ T cells by protecting the fetus from identification as foreign.
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A given MHC molecule can bind numerous different peptides, and some peptides can bind to several different MHC molecules. Because of this MHC molecule is often referred to as “promiscuous”.
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