The T Cell Receptor Is an Anisotropic Mechanosensor*
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Sun Taek Kim, Koh Takeuchi, Zhen-Yu J. Sun, Maki Touma, Carlos E. Castro , Amr Fahmy, Matthew J. Lang **, Gerhard Wagner, and Ellis L. Reinherz From the Department of Medical Oncology, Laboratory of Immunobiology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Departments of Medicine and Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115 and the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and **Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
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تاریخ انتشار 2009