Roles of natural killer cells in immunity to cancer, and applications to immunotherapy

NK Wolf, DU Kissiov, DH Raulet - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2023 - nature.com
Great strides have been made in recent years towards understanding the roles of natural
killer (NK) cells in immunity to tumours and viruses. NK cells are cytotoxic innate lymphoid …

NK cell recognition

LL Lanier - Annu. Rev. Immunol., 2005 - annualreviews.org
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Activating and inhibitory receptors of natural killer cells

HJ Pegram, DM Andrews, MJ Smyth… - Immunology and cell …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Natural killer (NK) cells are potent immune effector cells that can respond to infection and
cancer, as well as allowing maternal adaptation to pregnancy. In response to malignant …

Uterine natural killer cells: functional distinctions and influence on pregnancy in humans and mice

LM Gaynor, F Colucci - Frontiers in immunology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Our understanding of development and function of natural killer (NK) cells has progressed
significantly in recent years. However, exactly how uterine NK (uNK) cells develop and …

Licensing of natural killer cells by host major histocompatibility complex class I molecules

S Kim, J Poursine-Laurent, SM Truscott, L Lybarger… - Nature, 2005 - nature.com
Self versus non-self discrimination is a central theme in biology from plants to vertebrates,
and is particularly relevant for lymphocytes that express receptors capable of recognizing …

T cell–and B cell–independent adaptive immunity mediated by natural killer cells

JG O'Leary, M Goodarzi, DL Drayton… - Nature …, 2006 - nature.com
It is commonly believed that only T lymphocytes and B lymphocytes expressing
recombination-dependent antigen-specific receptors mediate contact hypersensitivity …

[HTML][HTML] Natural killer cell education and tolerance

MT Orr, LL Lanier - Cell, 2010 - cell.com
Natural killer (NK) cells play a key role in the immune response to certain infections and
malignancies by direct cytolysis of infected or transformed cells and by secretion of potent …

KIR: diverse, rapidly evolving receptors of innate and adaptive immunity

C Vilches, P Parham - Annual review of immunology, 2002 - annualreviews.org
KIR genes have evolved in primates to generate a diverse family of receptors with unique
structures that enable them to recognize MHC-class I molecules with locus and allele …

Self-tolerance of natural killer cells

DH Raulet, RE Vance - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2006 - nature.com
Natural killer (NK) cells, similar to other lymphocytes, acquire tolerance to self. This means
that NK cells have the potential to attack normal self cells but that there are mechanisms to …

Ligands for the murine NKG2D receptor: expression by tumor cells and activation of NK cells and macrophages

A Diefenbach, AM Jamieson, SD Liu, N Shastri… - Nature …, 2000 - nature.com
Natural killer (NK) cells attack tumor and infected cells, but the receptors and ligands that
stimulate them are poorly understood. Here we report the expression cloning of two murine …