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. 1991 Jul 12;253(5016):199-202.
doi: 10.1126/science.1853205.

MHC class I deficiency: susceptibility to natural killer (NK) cells and impaired NK activity

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MHC class I deficiency: susceptibility to natural killer (NK) cells and impaired NK activity

N S Liao et al. Science. .

Abstract

The role of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I expression in natural killer (NK) cell target recognition is controversial. Normal T cell blasts from MHC class I-deficient mutant mice were found to serve as target cells for NK cells in vitro, which suggests that MHC class I molecules are directly involved in NK cell recognition. Spleen cells from the mutant mice were deficient in their ability to lyse MHC class I-deficient target cells or NK-susceptible tumor targets, and mutant mice could not reject allogeneic bone marrow. Thus, class I molecules may participate in the positive selection or tolerance induction of NK cells.

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