A small, variable, and irregular killer cell Ig-like receptor locus accompanies the absence of MHC-C and MHC-G in gibbons

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 184, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1379-1391

  Abi Rached, Laurent ^a   Kuhl, Heiner ^b   Roos, Christian ^c   Ten Hallers, Boudewijn ^d   Zhu, Baoli ^d   Carbone, Lucia ^d   De Jong, Pieter J ^d   Mootnick, Alan R ^e   Knaust, Florian ^b   Reinhardt, Richard ^b   Parham, Peter ^a   Walter, Lutz ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^c GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^d CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OAKLAND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e Gibbon Conservation Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HLA C ANTIGEN; HLA G ANTIGEN; KILLER CELL IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIKE RECEPTOR; KILLER CELL IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIKE RECEPTOR 2DL4; KILLER CELL IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIKE RECEPTOR 3DL3; LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 1;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; APE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORCE; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; GIBBON; HAPLOTYPE; HYBRID GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; GENETICS; HAPLORHINI; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; IMMUNOLOGY; MACACA; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; ORANG UTAN; PAN TROGLODYTES;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIGENIC VARIATION; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE DELETION; GENETIC LOCI; HAPLOTYPES; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS I; HUMANS; HYLOBATES; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MACACA MULATTA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAN TROGLODYTES; PONGO; RECEPTORS, KIR;

EID: 77949317562     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.0903016     Document Type: Article

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