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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Engineering T cells contain specially engineered T cell receptors, called chimeric antigen receptors, and the modified cells are called CAR T cells

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WASp activation requires two signals (This type of two-signal input, called coincidence detection):

1. regulatory phospholipid PIP2

2. small GTP-binding protein Cdc42

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Persistence length,

minimum filament length at which random thermal fluctuations are likely to cause it to bend.

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T-Cell Activation and Differentiation

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1. Glucogenic amino acids- which are degraded to pyruvate, α-ketoglutarate, succinyl-CoA, fumarate, or oxaloacetate and are therefore glucose precursors

2. Ketogenic amino acids- which are broken down to acetyl-CoA or acetoacetate and can thus be converted to fatty acids or ketone bodies