The human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-C-specific "activatory" or "inhibitory" natural killer cell receptors display highly homologous extracellular domains but differ in their transmembrane and intracytoplasmic portions

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 183, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 645-650

  Biassoni, Roberto ^a   Cantoni, Claudia ^a   Falco, Michela ^a   Verdiani, Simonetta ^a   Bottino, Cristina ^a   Vitale, Massimo ^b   Conte, Romana ^a   Poggi, Alessandro ^a   Moretta, Alessandro ^b,c   Moretta, Lorenzo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL RECEPTOR; CYTOPLASM PROTEIN; HLA C ANTIGEN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN P50; PROTEIN P58; RECEPTOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONE CELLS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HLA-C ANTIGENS; HUMANS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 0030039386     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.183.2.645     Document Type: Article

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