Crystal structure of the human natural killer cell inhibitory receptor KIR2DL1-HLA-Cw4 complex

Nature Immunology

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 452-460

  Fan, Qing R ^a   Long, Eric O ^b   Wiley, Don C ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HLA C ANTIGEN; HLA CW4 ANTIGEN; HLA-CW4; IMMUNOGLOBULIN RECEPTOR; KIR2DLI RECEPTOR; LYSINE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; DIMERIZATION; HUMAN; HYDROGEN BOND; IMMUNOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SURFACE PROPERTY;

DIMERIZATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HLA-C ANTIGENS; HUMANS; HYDROGEN BONDING; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LYSINE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 0035344199     PISSN: 15292908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/87766     Document Type: Article

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