Editors:
- Presenting a comprehensive overview of important immune molecules and their structure-function relationships
- Providing researchers and students with the latest research advances concerning the structural biology of some key immune molecules/pathways
- Offering immunologists essential insights into how these immune molecules function
Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology (AEMB, volume 1172)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
This book presents a comprehensive overview of important immune molecules and their structure-function relationships. The immune system is highly complex, consisting of a network of molecules, cells, tissues and organs, and the immune reaction is involved in various physiological as well as pathological processes, including development, self-tolerance, infection, immunity, and cancer. Numerous molecules participate in immune recognition, inhibition and activation, and these important immune molecules can be roughly divided into cell surface receptors, intracellular receptors and intracellular signaling molecules. The study of how these immune molecules function at molecular level has laid the foundation for understanding the immune system. The book provides researchers and students with the latest research advances concerning the structural biology of key immune molecules/pathways, and offers immunologists essential insights into how these immune molecules function.
Editors and Affiliations
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The First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
Tengchuan Jin
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Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA
Qian Yin
About the editors
Dr. Tengchuan Jin is a Professor at the First Affiliated Hospital of USTC, Division of Life Sciences and Medicine, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). He holds a Ph.D. degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology and completed his postdoctoral training at the Laboratory of Immunology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA. His current research interests include the structural biology of the innate immune receptors, structure and function of inflammasome, molecular mechanism of microbe-host interactions, protein engineering and antibody drug development, and he has published more than 50 research articles in these fields.
Dr. Yin Qian is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biological Science, Florida State University. She received her Ph.D. degree from Cornell University and completed her postdoctoral training at Cornell University and Harvard Medical School underProf. Hao Wu, a well-known structural immunologist. Dr. Qian's research interests include the activation mechanism of interferon-inducible GTPases and regulatory mechanisms of Rag GTPases in autophagy. She has published a series of high-profile research articles in the field of structural immunology.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Structural Immunology
Editors: Tengchuan Jin, Qian Yin
Series Title: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9367-9
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-9366-2Published: 31 October 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-9369-3Published: 31 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-9367-9Published: 18 October 2019
Series ISSN: 0065-2598
Series E-ISSN: 2214-8019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 226
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 84 illustrations in colour
Topics: Immunology, Protein Structure, Molecular Medicine, Receptors
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