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Unusual selection on the KIR3DL1/S1 natural killer cell receptor in Africans
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Cited 187 time in Scopus
- Authors
- Issue Date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Nature Publishing Group
- Citation
- Nat. Genet. 39, 1092-1099
- Keywords
- African Continental Ancestry Group/*genetics ; Alleles ; Amino Acid Sequence ; Binding Sites/genetics ; Gene Frequency ; Genetics, Population ; HLA-B Antigens/chemistry/genetics ; Linkage Disequilibrium ; Molecular Sequence Data ; Phylogeny ; Polymorphism, Genetic ; Protein Structure, Tertiary ; Receptors, KIR3DL1/chemistry/*genetics ; Receptors, KIR3DS1/chemistry/*genetics ; Sequence Homology, Amino Acid ; Selection (Genetics)
- Abstract
- Interactions of killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIRs) with major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I ligands diversify natural killer cell responses to infection. By analyzing sequence variation in diverse human populations, we show that the KIR3DL1/S1 locus encodes two lineages of polymorphic inhibitory KIR3DL1 allotypes that recognize Bw4 epitopes of protein">HLA-A and HLA-B and one lineage of conserved activating KIR3DS1 allotypes, also implicated in Bw4 recognition. Balancing selection has maintained these three lineages for over 3 million years. Variation was selected at D1 and D2 domain residues that contact HLA class I and at two sites on D0, the domain that enhances the binding of KIR3D to HLA class I. HLA-B variants that gained Bw4 through interallelic microconversion are also products of selection. A worldwide comparison uncovers unusual KIR3DL1/S1 evolution in modern sub-Saharan Africans. Balancing selection is weak and confined to D0, KIR3DS1 is rare and KIR3DL1 allotypes with similar binding sites predominate. Natural killer cells express the dominant KIR3DL1 at a high frequency and with high surface density, providing strong responses to cells perturbed in Bw4 expression.
- ISSN
- 1061-4036 (Print)
- Language
- English
- URI
- http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v39/n9/abs/ng2111.html
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=17694054
https://hdl.handle.net/10371/12122
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