NK cell responses to cytomegalovirus infection lead to stable imprints in the human KIR repertoire and involve activating KIRs

Copy number variation leads to considerable diversity for B but not A haplotypes of the human KIR genes encoding NK cell receptors

(2012) W. Jiang et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Skewing of the NK Cell Repertoire by MHC Class I via Quantitatively Controlled Enrichment and Contraction of Specific Ly49 Subsets

(2012) P. Brodin et al.   JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

Human Cytomegalovirus (CMV)-Induced Memory-like NKG2C+ NK Cells Are Transplantable and Expand In Vivo in Response to Recipient CMV Antigen

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Expression of Activating KIR2DS2 and KIR2DS4 Genes after Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation: Relevance to Cytomegalovirus Infection

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Phenotypic and functional heterogeneity of human NK cells developing after umbilical cord blood transplantation: a role for human cytomegalovirus?

(2011) M. Della Chiesa et al.   BLOOD

Neonatal NK-cell repertoires are functionally, but not structurally, biased toward recognition of self HLA class I

(2011) K. Schonberg et al.   BLOOD

Cytomegalovirus reactivation after allogeneic transplantation promotes a lasting increase in educated NKG2C+ natural killer cells with potent function

(2011) B. Foley et al.   BLOOD

CMV drives clonal expansion of NKG2C+NK cells expressing self-specific KIRs in chronic hepatitis patients

(2011) Vivien Béziat et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

Distinct MHC class I–dependent NK cell–activating receptors control cytomegalovirus infection in different mouse strains

(2011) Michał Pyzik et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE

Analysis of Binding of KIR3DS1*014 to HLA Suggests Distinct Evolutionary History of KIR3DS1

(2011) G. M. O'Connor et al.   JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

Killer Immunoglobulin-Like Receptor Transcriptional Regulation: A Fascinating Dance of Multiple Promoters

(2011) Frank Cichocki et al.   Journal of Innate Immunity

Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Infection Is Associated with Increased NK Cell Polyfunctionality and Higher Levels of KIR3DL1+ NK Cells in Ugandans Carrying the HLA-B Bw4 Motif

(2011) M. A. Eller et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

Natural killer cell memory

(2011) Silke Paust et al.   NATURE IMMUNOLOGY

Expansion of a unique CD57+NKG2Chi natural killer cell subset during acute human cytomegalovirus infection

(2011) S. Lopez-Verges et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Innate or Adaptive Immunity? The Example of Natural Killer Cells

(2011) E. Vivier et al.   SCIENCE

Unifying concepts of MHC-dependent natural killer cell education

(2011) Julie M. Elliott et al.   TRENDS IN IMMUNOLOGY

Unconventional Repertoire Profile Is Imprinted during Acute Chikungunya Infection for Natural Killer Cells Polarization toward Cytotoxicity

(2011) Caroline Petitdemange et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Analyses of HLA-C-specific KIR repertoires in donors with group A and B haplotypes suggest a ligand-instructed model of NK cell receptor acquisition

(2010) K. Schonberg et al.   BLOOD

CD62L expression identifies a unique subset of polyfunctional CD56dim NK cells

(2010) K. Juelke et al.   BLOOD

Expression patterns of NKG2A, KIR, and CD57 define a process of CD56dim NK-cell differentiation uncoupled from NK-cell education

(2010) N. K. Bjorkstrom et al.   BLOOD

Rapid expansion and long-term persistence of elevated NK cell numbers in humans infected with hantavirus

(2010) Niklas K. Björkström et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE

Combined Genotypic and Phenotypic Killer Cell Ig-Like Receptor Analyses Reveal KIR2DL3 Alleles Displaying Unexpected Monoclonal Antibody Reactivity: Identification of the Amino Acid Residues Critical for Staining

(2010) M. Falco et al.   JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

NK Cell Terminal Differentiation: Correlated Stepwise Decrease of NKG2A and Acquisition of KIRs

(2010) Vivien Béziat et al.   PLoS One

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

(2010) Laurent Abi-Rached et al.   PLoS Genetics

KIR acquisition probabilities are independent of self-HLA class I ligands and increase with cellular KIR expression

(2009) S. Andersson et al.   BLOOD

Discrimination between the main activating and inhibitory killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptor positive natural killer cell subsets using newly characterized monoclonal antibodies

(2009) Gaëlle David et al.   IMMUNOLOGY

KIR2DS4 is a product of gene conversion with KIR3DL2 that introduced specificity for HLA-A*11 while diminishing avidity for HLA-C

(2009) Thorsten Graef et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE

Adaptive immune features of natural killer cells

(2009) Joseph C. Sun et al.   NATURE

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

Human NK cells can control CMV infection in the absence of T cells

(2008) T. W. Kuijpers et al.   BLOOD

Line of attack: NK cell specificity and integration of signals

(2008) Yenan T Bryceson et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN IMMUNOLOGY

The extended human leukocyte receptor complex: diverse ways of modulating immune responses

(2008) Alexander David Barrow et al.   IMMUNOLOGICAL REVIEWS