Alloantigen recognition by two human natural killer cell clones is associated with HLA-C or a closely linked gene.

AUTOR(ES)

Colonna, M

RESUMO

Human natural killer (NK) cells with the CD3- CD16+ phenotype recognize allospecificities on normal T-cell blasts. The NK-defined specificity 1 (NK-1) is recessively inherited and has been mapped to the major histocompatibility complex between the complement gene cluster and HLA-A. A gene for NK-1, however, has not been identified. Here we demonstrate that NK-1 and the recently defined NK specificity 2 (NK-2) are reciprocally associated with homozygosity for a diallelic polymorphism at amino acid positions 77 and 80 in the putative peptide-binding site of HLA-C (P less than 10(-5)). NK-cell recognition of allogeneic cells may, therefore, be controlled by HLA-C itself or by a closely linked gene(s), which dominantly prevents (resistance alleles) or recessively permits (susceptibility alleles) recognition of still-unknown target determinants.

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