Definition of "immunoreceptor" [immunoreceptor]

• The site on an antibody at which an antigen is bound (noun)

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• "Prior to this study, researchers knew that so-called immunoreceptor tyrosine-based activation motif (ITAM) - coupled receptors were involved in regulating inflammation, but they did not know how the ITAM pathways actually turned off inflammatory signaling."
• "The St. Jude investigators sought to understand why T cell receptors need many copies of switch-like components called immunoreceptor tyrosine-based activation motifs (ITAMS)."
• "Initially, the researchers found that the Mincle receptor is associated with another signaling receptor chain, FcRã and triggers macrophage activation through a specific sequence known as the immunoreceptor tyrosine-based activation motif (ITAM)."