How nonuniform contact profiles of T cell receptors modulate thymic selection outcomes
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Hanrong Chen,1 Arup K. Chakraborty,2, 3 and Mehran Kardar3 Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA Departments of Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, and Biological Engineering, Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA (Dated: January 12, 2018)
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