T cell receptors co-recognizing both MHC and antigenic peptide for a tri-party specific interaction has been a central dogma of T cell-mediated responses. Here the authors use X-ray crystallography to identify a TCR that contacts only the MHC beta chain of HLA-DQ2, with this specificity potentially enforced by Leucine-55 of HLA-DQ2.5 to exclude interaction with other MHCs.
- Jia Jia Lim
- Claerwen M. Jones
- Jamie Rossjohn