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The Ly49 natural killer cell receptors: a versatile tool for viral self-discrimination

Berry, Richard, Rossjohn, Jamie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2020-7522 and Brooks, Andrew G. 2014. The Ly49 natural killer cell receptors: a versatile tool for viral self-discrimination. Immunology and Cell Biology 92 , pp. 214-220. 10.1038/icb.2013.100

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Abstract

The activation of murine and human natural killer (NK) cells is regulated by families of receptors including the Ly49 and Killer immunoglobulin-like receptors, respectively, both of which contain activating and inhibitory members. The archetypal role of inhibitory Ly49 receptors is to attenuate NK cell responses to normal cells that express major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class-I molecules, in essence allowing for more robust responses to infected or cancerous cells that lack MHC-I on their cell surface. However, it is now evident that Ly49 receptors have an appreciably more sophisticated array of functions. In particular, some activating Ly49 receptors can bind directly to MHC-I-like viral gene products such as m157, whereas others recognize self-MHC-I but only in the presence of viral chaperones. Although Ly49 receptor recognition is centred on the MHC-I-like fold, these NK cell receptors can also engage related ligands in unexpected ways. Herein we review the varied strategies employed by Ly49 receptors to recognize both self and viral ligands, with particular emphasis on the recently determined mode of Ly49-m157 ligation, and highlight the versatile nature of this family in the control of viral infections.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Medicine
Systems Immunity Research Institute (SIURI)
Subjects: Q Science > QR Microbiology > QR180 Immunology
Q Science > QR Microbiology > QR355 Virology
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
ISSN: 0818-9641
Last Modified: 28 Oct 2022 10:37
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/79025

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