Evolution of natural killer cell receptors: Coexistence of functional Ly49 and KIR genes in baboons

Current Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 626-630

  Mager, Dixie L ^a   McQueen, Karina L ^a   Wee, Vinnie ^a   Freeman, J Douglas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA; PAPIO; PAPIO HAMADRYAS; PRIMATES; RODENTIA;

EID: 0035901592     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(01)00148-8     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Natural killer cells wear different hats: Effector cells of innate resistance and regulatory cells of adaptive immunity and of hematopoiesis
2. Regulation of immune responses through inhibitory receptors
3. The enigma of the natural killer cell
4. Natural kill cell receptors
5. Identification of a human member of the Ly-49 multigene family
6. The human Ly-49L gene
7. The genomic organization and evolution of the natural killer immunoglobulin-like receptor (KIR) gene cluster
8. Plasticity in the organization and sequences of human KIR/ILT gene families
9. 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
10. Localization of five new Ly49 genes, including three closely related to Ly49c
11. Ly49 gene expression in different inbred mouse strains
12. Statistical features of human exons and their flanking regions
13. Toward a phylogenetic classification of primates based on DNA evidence complemented by fossil evidence
14. Signal transduction during natural killer cell activation: Inside the mind of a killer
15. Killer cell receptors: Keeping pace with MHC class I evolution
16. Rapid evolution of NK cell receptor systems demonstrated by comparison of chimpanzees and humans
17. Short KIR haplotypes in pygmy chimpanzee (bonobo) resemble the conserved framework of diverse human KIR haplotypes
18. Killer cell inhibitory receptors (KIR) nucleotide and amino acid sequence alignment, 1998
19. The C-type lectin superfamily in the immune system
20. Homologous recombination between the LTRs of a human retrovirus-like element causes a 5-kb deletion in two siblings
21. Ly-49 multigene family, new members of a superfamily of type II membrane proteins with lectin-like domains
22. Using rapid amplification of cDNA ends (RACE) to obtain full-length cDNAs
23. The promise of comparative genomics in mammals