Human-Specific Evolution and Adaptation Led to Major Qualitative Differences in the Variable Receptors of Human and Chimpanzee Natural Killer Cells

Synergistic Polymorphism at Two Positions Distal to the Ligand-Binding Site Makes KIR2DL2 a Stronger Receptor for HLA-C Than KIR2DL3

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Humans Differ from Other Hominids in Lacking an Activating NK Cell Receptor That Recognizes the C1 Epitope of MHC Class I

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DnaSP v5: a software for comprehensive analysis of DNA polymorphism data

(2009) P. Librado et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Chimpanzees Use More Varied Receptors and Ligands Than Humans for Inhibitory Killer Cell Ig-Like Receptor Recognition of the MHC-C1 and MHC-C2 Epitopes

(2009) A. K. Moesta et al.   JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

Co-evolution of KIR2DL3 with HLA-C in a human population retaining minimal essential diversity of KIR and HLA class I ligands

(2009) K. Gendzekhadze et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Novel System of Polymorphic and Diverse NK Cell Receptors in Primates

(2009) Anne Averdam et al.   PLoS Genetics

Evolutionarily Conserved Amino Acids That Control TCR-MHC Interaction

(2008) Philippa Marrack et al.   Annual Review of Immunology

MHC class I-specific inhibitory receptors and their ligands structure diverse human NK-cell repertoires toward a balance of missing self-response

(2008) M. Yawata et al.   BLOOD

KIR2DL5 alleles mark certain combination of activating KIR genes

(2008) Z Du et al.   GENES AND IMMUNITY

Duplication, mutation and recombination of the human orphan gene KIR2DS3 contribute to the diversity of KIR haplotypes

(2008) D Ordóñez et al.   GENES AND IMMUNITY

Balancing selection and heterogeneity across the classical human leukocyte antigen loci: A meta-analytic review of 497 population studies

(2008) Owen D. Solberg et al.   HUMAN IMMUNOLOGY

Human leucocyte antigen (HLA) expression of primary trophoblast cells and placental cell lines, determined using single antigen beads to characterize allotype specificities of anti-HLA antibodies

(2008) Richard Apps et al.   IMMUNOLOGY

Brain size at birth throughout human evolution: A new method for estimating neonatal brain size in hominins

(2008) Jeremy M. DeSilva et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Up on the tightrope: natural killer cell activation and inhibition

(2008) Lewis L Lanier   NATURE IMMUNOLOGY

Functions of natural killer cells

(2008) Eric Vivier et al.   NATURE IMMUNOLOGY

The Yin and Yang of HLA and KIR in human disease

(2008) Smita Kulkarni et al.   SEMINARS IN IMMUNOLOGY

NK receptor interactions with MHC class I molecules in pregnancy

(2008) John Trowsdale et al.   SEMINARS IN IMMUNOLOGY