A single amino acid substitution causes loss of expression of a MICA allele

Immunogenetics

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 246-248

  Li, Zihai ^a,b   Groh, Veronika ^a   Strong, Roland K ^a   Spies, Thomas ^a  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

MHC; MICA; Null allele; Tumor cell lines

Indexed keywords

HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CANCER CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION; HETEROZYGOSITY LOSS; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0034056663     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002510050039     Document Type: Article

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