KIR: diverse, rapidly evolving receptors of innate and adaptive immunity.

By C. Vilches, Peter Parham. Annual Review of Immunology, 2002

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Subfields: Immunology

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1. Peter Parham
2. A. Moretta
3. A. Moffett
4. Christopher W. G. Redman
5. Steven G. Deeks
6. W. Yokoyama

Citations in the corpus

• Innate partnership of HLA-B and KIR3DL1 subtypes against HIV-1 (2007, background): “Similarly to other NK cell receptors, KIRs are expressed on T cells as well as on NK cells, affirming their role in both innate and adaptive immunity, but they are distinct from other NK cell receptors in that they are exceptionally diverse and rapidly evolvin”
• MHC class I molecules and kirs in human history, health and survival (2005, background): “Within the families of mammalian MHC class I genes, there is abundant evidence for such evolution, and this is also true for the gene families that encode the MHC-class-I-specific NK-cell receptor”
• Combinations of Maternal KIR and Fetal HLA-C Genes Influence the Risk of Preeclampsia and Reproductive Success (2004, background): “Other activating KIR2DS receptors (KIR2DS3, 2DS4, and 2DS5) with very similar sequences may also bind HLA-C molecules (7, 8, 9).”
• Natural killer cells and dendritic cells: rendezvous in abused tissues (2002, background): “KIRs are cell-surface structures that have evolved recently in primates to generate a highly polymorphic system, with a level of diversity that can be compared only with that of the MHC class I molecule”
• Killer-cell immunoglobulin-like receptor (KIR) nomenclature report, 2002 (2003, background): “Thus KIR2DL1, KIR2DL2, and KIR2DL3 all encode receptors having two extracellular Ig-like domains and a long cytoplasmic tail [3].”
• Immune functions encoded by the natural killer gene complex (2003, background): “show a plasticity in gene content between haplotypes, similar to that described for the KIR gene famil”