Human natural killer cells

MA Caligiuri - Blood, The Journal of the American Society of …, 2008 - ashpublications.org
Natural killer (NK) cells were discovered more than 30 years ago. NK cells are large
granular lymphocytes that belong to the innate immune system because unlike T or B …

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 …

Human inhibitory receptors Ig-like transcript 2 (ILT2) and ILT4 compete with CD8 for MHC class I binding and bind preferentially to HLA-G

M Shiroishi, K Tsumoto, K Amano… - Proceedings of the …, 2003 - National Acad Sciences
Ig-like transcript 4 (ILT4)(also known as leukocyte Ig-like receptor 2, CD85d, and LILRB2) is
a cell surface receptor expressed mainly on myelomonocytic cells, whereas ILT2 (also …

Mouse TIGIT inhibits NK‐cell cytotoxicity upon interaction with PVR

N Stanietsky, TL Rovis, A Glasner… - European journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The activity of natural killer (NK) cells is controlled by a balance of signals derived from
inhibitory and activating receptors. TIGIT is a novel inhibitory receptor, recently shown in …

Immune functions encoded by the natural killer gene complex

WM Yokoyama, BFM Plougastel - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2003 - nature.com
There has been marked progress in our understanding of the role of natural killer (NK) cells
in immune responses, mainly due to the identification of NK-cell receptors and their ligands …

Natural killer cell receptors: new biology and insights into the graft-versus-leukemia effect

SS Farag, TA Fehniger, L Ruggeri… - Blood, The Journal …, 2002 - ashpublications.org
Natural killer (NK) cells have held great promise for the immunotherapy of cancer for more
than 3 decades. However, to date only modest clinical success has been achieved …

Molecular interactions mediating T cell antigen recognition

PA Merwe, SJ Davis - Annual review of immunology, 2003 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Over the past decade, key protein interactions contributing to T cell antigen
recognition have been characterized in molecular detail. These have included interactions …

Recognition of peptide–MHC class I complexes by activating killer immunoglobulin-like receptors

CA Stewart, F Laugier-Anfossi, F Vély… - Proceedings of the …, 2005 - National Acad Sciences
Inhibitory receptors for MHC class I molecules increase the threshold of lymphocyte
activation. Natural Killer (NK) cells express a large number of such inhibitory receptors …

Complex structure of the activating immunoreceptor NKG2D and its MHC class I–like ligand MICA

P Li, DL Morris, BE Willcox, A Steinle, T Spies… - Nature …, 2001 - nature.com
The major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I homolog, MICA, is a stress-inducible
ligand for NKG2D, a C-type lectin–like activating immunoreceptor. The crystal structure of …

[HTML][HTML] Kinetics and peptide dependency of the binding of the inhibitory NK receptor CD94/NKG2‐A and the activating receptor CD94/NKG2‐C to HLA‐E

M Valés‐Gómez, HT Reyburn, RA Erskine… - The EMBO …, 1999 - embopress.org
The lytic function of human natural killer (NK) cells is markedly influenced by recognition of
class I major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules, a process mediated by several …