A novel system of polymorphic and diverse NK cell receptors in primates

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Averdam, Anne ^a   Petersen, Beatrix ^a   Rosner, Cornelia ^a   Neff, Jennifer ^a   Roos, Christian ^a   Eberle, Manfred ^a   Aujard, Fabienne ^b   Münch, Claudia ^c   Schempp, Werner ^c   Carrington, Mary ^d   Shiina, Takashi ^e   Inoko, Hidetoshi ^e   Knaust, Florian ^f   Coggill, Penny ^g   Sehra, Harminder ^g   Beck, Stephan ^h   Abi Rached, Laurent ⁱ   Reinhardt, Richard ^f   Walter, Lutz ^a  

^a GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^b Adaptive Mechanisms and Evolution   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^g WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD94 ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN RECEPTOR; LECTIN RECEPTOR; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1; NATURAL KILLER CELL RECEPTOR; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN; NATURAL KILLER CELL LECTIN LIKE RECEPTOR SUBFAMILY D;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC TRANSFECTION; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR CLONING; MONKEY; MOUSE; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORTHOLOGY; PRIMATE; PROSIMIAN; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; ANIMAL; CELL LINE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE;

LEMURIDAE; MAMMALIA; PLATYRRHINI; PRIMATES; RODENTIA;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS; HUMANS; MICE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NK CELL LECTIN-LIKE RECEPTOR SUBFAMILY D; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; STREPSIRHINI;

EID: 73349126136     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000688     Document Type: Article

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