An autosomal dominant locus, Nka, mapping to the Ly-49 region of a rat natural killer (NK) gene complex, controls NK cell lysis of allogeneic lymphocytes

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 183, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 2197-2207

  Dissen, Erik ^a   Ryan, James C ^b   Seaman, William E ^b   Fossum, Sigbjørn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; CYTOLYSIS; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HAPLOTYPE; LIGAND BINDING; LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR AFFINITY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, LY; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CROSSES, GENETIC; DNA PRIMERS; EXONS; GENES, DOMINANT; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS I; ISOANTIGENS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LECTINS, C-TYPE; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSEUDOGENES; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RATS, INBRED LEW; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0029890826     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.183.5.2197     Document Type: Article

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