Evolutionary vignettes of natural killer cell receptors

Current Opinion in Immunology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 553-560

  Sambrook, Jennifer G ^a   Beck, Stephan ^a,b  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HLA A ANTIGEN; HLA B ANTIGEN; HLA C ANTIGEN; HLA E ANTIGEN; HLA F ANTIGEN; HLA G ANTIGEN; KILLER CELL LECTIN LIKE RECEPTOR; KILLER IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIKE RECEPTOR; NATURAL KILLER CELL RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

FISH; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; OPOSSUM; PRIMATE; PSEUDOGENE; REVIEW; RODENT; UNGULATE; VERTEBRATE; XENOPUS;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS I; HUMANS; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; RECEPTORS, IMMUNOLOGIC; RECEPTORS, KIR;

EID: 34848923722     PISSN: 09527915     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.coi.2007.08.002     Document Type: Review

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