Myosin II

Two heads and assembles into bipolar filaments

Small and non-processive

Function- Contraction

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Class II presentation can occur with either live or replication-incompetent virus; protein synthesis inhibitors had no effect, indicating that new protein synthesis is not a necessary condition of class II presentation.

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Class II, but not class I, presentation is inhibited by treatment of the cells with an agent that blocks endocytic processing within the cell (chloroquine).

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T cell

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T cells initiate the adaptive immune response by interacting MHC on antigen-presenting cells that have been exposed to pathogens. 

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Development of T cells from hematopoietic stem cells on bone marrow stromal cells expressing the Notch ligand

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T-Cell Development

Commitment of hematopoietic precursors to the T cell lineage

The initiation of antigen receptor gene rearrangements

The selection and expansion of cells that have successfully rearranged one of their T-cell receptor genes (-selection).