Figure 2
From: Models in biology: ‘accurate descriptions of our pathetic thinking’
Discrimination by the T-cell receptor. Schematic of the Altan-Bonnet–Germain model from [29, Figure two A], showing a kinetic proofreading scheme through a sequence of tyrosine phosphorylations, which is triggered by the binding of the TCR to pMHC, linked with a negative feedback loop through the tyrosine phosphatase SHP-1 and a positive feedback loop through MAPK. MAPK, mitogen-activated protein kinase; pMHC, peptide-major histocompatibility complex; P, singly phosphorylated; PP, multiply phosphorylated; SHP-1, SH2 domain-containing tyrosine phosphatase-1; TCR, T-cell receptor.