CD Antigens: Review of Data Obtained by April' 98

CD nomenclature may be considered as chronologically set up list of elucidated molecules with each molecule number characterized by the time when it was discovered and thus by the advances in immunology. The Nomenclature Committee of World Health Organization (WHO) and International Union of Immunological Societies (IUIS) have a specialized classification department - Subcommittee on CD Nomenclature. Registration and indexing of the particular CD number to the selected clusters is carried out at International Workshops on Human Differentiation Antigens. The last 6th International Workshop was held in 1996, Kobe, Japan. In the present review we force to briefly characterize all already elucidated CD molecules that is given in a form of multicomponent table. The table partly created by us was based on the data of the last International Workshop and literature data covering the 1997-1998 period. As a commentary to the CD nomenclature table we shall try to describe structure and functions of the main families and domains, to which the majority of known CD molecules may be attributed.