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Regulation of T cell function by NK cell receptors for classical MHC class I molecules
1Centre d'Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy (CIML), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Campus Universitaire de Luminy, Marseille, 13288, France.
Current Opinion in Immunology
|April 27, 2000
Abstract:
Inhibitory receptors for MHC class I molecules were initially characterised on NK cells. Human and mouse NK cell receptors (NKRs) are also expressed on T cells, predominantly on a subset of memory-phenotype CD8(+) T cells. This review focuses on the precise determination of interactions between NKRs and MHC class I, as well as on the unexpected in vivo function of NKRs on T cells.