Abstract
This Podcast features an interview with Adam Schrum and Steven Neier, authors of a Research Article that appears in the 2 August 2016 issue of Science Signaling, about a method for identifying protein.protein interactions in patient tissue samples. The authors used this method to compare signaling complexes downstream of the T cell receptor in T cells from healthy skin with those in T cells from the skin of patients with the autoimmune disease alopecia areata. The study revealed differences in the relative abundance of some protein complexes between T cells from the control and patient groups. This technique could be adapted for use as a diagnostic tool to stratify patients by molecular phenotype and predict the therapeutic strategy that is likely to work best for each patient.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | pc17 |
Journal | Science Signaling |
Volume | 9 |
Issue number | 439 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Aug 2 2016 |
Keywords
- Alopecia areata
- Autoimmune disease
- Baldness
- Diagnostic tool
- GADS
- GRB2
- LAT
- Linker of activated T cells
- Personal medicine
- Protein. protein complex
- Science Signaling
- T cell receptor
- TCR signalosome
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Biochemistry
- Molecular Biology
- Cell Biology