Human-specific evolution of killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptor recognition of major histocompatibility complex class I molecules

Polymorphic Sites Away from the Bw4 Epitope That Affect Interaction of Bw4+ HLA-B with KIR3DL1

(2014) B. Sanjanwala et al.   JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

Rhesus macaque KIR bind human MHC class I with broad specificity and recognize HLA-C more effectively than HLA-A and HLA-B

(2011) Anastazia M. Older Aguilar et al.   IMMUNOGENETICS

Structure/function of human killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptors: lessons from polymorphisms, evolution, crystal structures and mutations

(2011) Kerry S. Campbell et al.   IMMUNOLOGY

Variable NK Cell Receptors Exemplified by Human KIR3DL1/S1

(2011) P. Parham et al.   JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

A shift toward birthing relatively large infants early in human evolution

(2011) J. M. DeSilva   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

Mutiny or scrutiny: NK cell modulation of DC function in HIV-1 infection

(2011) Galit Alter et al.   TRENDS IN IMMUNOLOGY

A novel KIR-associated function: evidence that CpG DNA uptake and shuttling to early endosomes is mediated by KIR3DL2

(2010) S. Sivori et al.   BLOOD

Reconstitution of natural killer cell receptors influences natural killer activity and relapse rate after haploidentical transplantation of T- and B-cell depleted grafts in children

(2010) M. M. Pfeiffer et al.   HAEMATOLOGICA

Maternal activating KIRs protect against human reproductive failure mediated by fetal HLA-C2

(2010) Susan E. Hiby et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL INVESTIGATION

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

(2010) A. K. Moesta et al.   JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

Coevolution of Killer Cell Ig-Like Receptors with HLA-C To Become the Major Variable Regulators of Human NK Cells

(2010) A. M. Older Aguilar et al.   JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

HLA-F Complex without Peptide Binds to MHC Class I Protein in the Open Conformer Form

(2010) J. P. Goodridge et al.   JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

Predicting interactions between T cell receptors and MHC-peptide complexes

(2010) Kirsten Roomp et al.   MOLECULAR IMMUNOLOGY

A map of human genome variation from population-scale sequencing

(2010) Richard M. Durbin et al.   NATURE

Allele frequency net: a database and online repository for immune gene frequencies in worldwide populations

(2010) F. F. Gonzalez-Galarza et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Different Patterns of Evolution in the Centromeric and Telomeric Regions of Group A and B Haplotypes of the Human Killer Cell Ig-Like Receptor Locus

(2010) Chul-Woo Pyo et al.   PLoS One

Peptide antagonism as a mechanism for NK cell activation

(2010) L. Fadda et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Extending killer Ig-like receptor function: from HLA class I recognition to sensors of microbial products

(2010) Simona Sivori et al.   TRENDS IN IMMUNOLOGY

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

Functional Comparison of Innate Immune Signaling Pathways in Primates

(2010) Luis B. Barreiro et al.   PLoS Genetics

Significant functional heterogeneity among KIR2DL1 alleles and a pivotal role of arginine245

(2009) R. Bari et al.   BLOOD

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

(2009) S. Andersson et al.   BLOOD

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

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

A Small, Variable, and Irregular Killer Cell Ig-Like Receptor Locus Accompanies the Absence of MHC-C and MHC-G in Gibbons

(2009) L. Abi-Rached et al.   JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

Dimorphic Motifs in D0 and D1+D2 Domains of Killer Cell Ig-Like Receptor 3DL1 Combine to Form Receptors with High, Moderate, and No Avidity for the Complex of a Peptide Derived from HIV and HLA-A*2402

(2009) D. Sharma et al.   JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

Evolution and Survival of Marine Carnivores Did Not Require a Diversity of Killer Cell Ig-Like Receptors or Ly49 NK Cell Receptors

(2009) J. A. Hammond 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

Donors with group B KIR haplotypes improve relapse-free survival after unrelated hematopoietic cell transplantation for acute myelogenous leukemia

(2008) S. Cooley et al.   BLOOD

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

Dramatically reduced surface expression of NK cell receptor KIR2DS3 is attributed to multiple residues throughout the molecule

(2008) C J VandenBussche et al.   GENES AND IMMUNITY

Association of maternal killer-cell immunoglobulin-like receptors and parental HLA-C genotypes with recurrent miscarriage

(2008) S.E. Hiby et al.   HUMAN REPRODUCTION

Lineage-specific diversification of killer cell Ig-like receptors in the owl monkey, a New World primate

(2008) Luis F. Cadavid et al.   IMMUNOGENETICS

NK cell receptors in rodents and cattle

(2008) Erik Dissen et al.   SEMINARS IN IMMUNOLOGY

The Yin and Yang of HLA and KIR in human disease

(2008) Smita Kulkarni et al.   SEMINARS IN IMMUNOLOGY

Evolution of the Ly49 and Nkrp1 recognition systems

(2008) James R. Carlyle et al.   SEMINARS IN IMMUNOLOGY