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Peptide/MHC Complex
Peptide MHC Complexes consist of proteolytically-processed low molecular weight amino acid fragments of antigenic foreign proteins noncovalently bound to self MHC antigens and displayed on the surface of antigen presenting macrophages to helper T cells as an important part of an immune response. (NCI Thesaurus)
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