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High resolution MIC genotyping: design and application to the investigation of inflammatory bowel disease susceptibility.
Tissue antigens - 1 Aug 2002
Ahmad T, Marshall S E, Mulcahy-Hawes K, Orchard T, Crawshaw J, Armuzzi A, Neville M, van Heel D, Barnardo M, Welsh K I, Jewell D P, Bunce M
Abstract excerpt
The highly polymorphic nonclassical MHC class I chain-related (MIC) genes MICA and MICB encode stress inducible glycoproteins expressed on a variety of epithelial cells including intestinal cells. Interaction with the receptor NKG2D is likely to provide an important costimulatory signal for activation and proliferation of NK cells, activated macrophages and CD8 alphabeta and gammadelta T cells. Fifty-four MICA...
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