Structure and function of natural killer cell surface receptors

Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure

Volumn 32, Issue , 2003, Pages 93-114

  Radaev, Sergei ^a   Sun, Peter D ^a  

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

Author keywords

Allotype specificity; CD94; KIR; KIR HLA complex; NKG2D ULBP complex

Indexed keywords

C TYPE LECTIN LIKE RECEPTOR; CD94 ANTIGEN; CELL RECEPTOR; HLA A ANTIGEN; HLA B ANTIGEN; HLA C ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN RECEPTOR; LY ANTIGEN; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLOTYPE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGEN BINDING; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; CELL ADHESION; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; HUMAN; LIGAND BINDING; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MOLECULAR CLONING; NATURAL KILLER CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RECEPTOR BINDING; RECEPTOR INTRINSIC ACTIVITY; REVIEW;

ANTIGEN-ANTIBODY COMPLEX; ANTIGENS, CD; ANTIGENS, CD94; ANTIGENS, LY; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS I; HLA ANTIGENS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LECTINS, C-TYPE; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 0042353905     PISSN: 10568700     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.biophys.32.110601.142347     Document Type: Review

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