Search Results - "Klas Karre"
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Natural killer cell recognition of missing self
Published in Nature immunology (01-05-2008)“…The idea that NK cells can distinguish aberrant cells by recognizing 'absence of the expected', rather than 'presence of the unexpected' emerged more than 25…”
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NK cell education: not an on-off switch but a tunable rheostat
Published in Trends in immunology (01-04-2009)“…Heterogeneity in the natural killer (NK) cell population is determined by variegated expression of polygenic and polymorphic receptors and distinct phenotypes…”
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A Perfect Mismatch
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (15-03-2002)“…Karre comments on a study by Ruggeri et al demonstrating that so-called natural killer (NK) cells can prevent leukemia relapse in leukemic patients, and at the…”
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Skewing of the NK cell repertoire by MHC class I via quantitatively controlled enrichment and contraction of specific Ly49 subsets
Published in The Journal of immunology (1950) (01-03-2012)“…A major task for the immune system is to secure powerful immune reactions while preserving self-tolerance. This process is particularly challenging for NK…”
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Express Yourself or Die: Peptides, MHC Molecules, and NK Cells
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (17-02-1995)“…Natural killer (NK) cells protect the body from infection and mutant cells by assessing cells for self Class I MHC molecules. Research on the role of peptides…”
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The strength of inhibitory input during education quantitatively tunes the functional responsiveness of individual natural killer cells
Published in Blood (12-03-2009)“…Natural killer (NK) cells express inhibitory receptors for major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I. If self-MHC is down-regulated or absent, lack of…”
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Enrichment of CD56dimKIR+CD57+ highly cytotoxic NK cells in tumour-infiltrated lymph nodes of melanoma patients
Published in Nature communications (04-12-2014)“…An important checkpoint in the progression of melanoma is the metastasis to lymph nodes. Here, to investigate the role of lymph node NK cells in disease…”
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Clustering of Major Histocompatibility Complex-Class I Molecules in Healthy and Cancer Colon Cells Revealed from Their Nanomechanical Properties
Published in ACS nano (27-04-2021)“…The activation of the T cell mediated immune response relies on the fine interaction between the T cell receptor on the immune cell and the antigen-presenting…”
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Expression of CD226 is associated to but not required for NK cell education
Published in Nature communications (31-05-2017)“…DNAX accessory molecule-1 (DNAM-1, also known as CD226) is an activating receptor expressed on subsets of natural killer (NK) and T cells, interacts with its…”
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NCRs and DNAM-1 mediate NK cell recognition and lysis of human and mouse melanoma cell lines in vitro and in vivo
Published in The Journal of clinical investigation (01-05-2009)“…NK cells use a variety of receptors to detect abnormal cells, including tumors and their metastases. However, in the case of melanoma, it remains to be…”
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Human NK cells selective targeting of colon cancer-initiating cells: a role for natural cytotoxicity receptors and MHC class I molecules
Published in The Journal of immunology (1950) (01-03-2013)“…Tumor cell populations have been recently proposed to be composed of two compartments: tumor-initiating cells characterized by a slow and asymmetrical growth,…”
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Spatial immunophenotyping of the tumour microenvironment in non–small cell lung cancer
Published in European journal of cancer (1990) (01-05-2023)“…Immune cells in the tumour microenvironment are associated with prognosis and response to therapy. We aimed to comprehensively characterise the spatial immune…”
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Pharmacological activation of p53 triggers anticancer innate immune response through induction of ULBP2
Published in Cell cycle (Georgetown, Tex.) (01-10-2011)“…Escape of tumor cells from cell-intrinsic barrier mediated by tumor suppressors and cell-extrinsic barrier mediated by the immune system is crucial for…”
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Clever, cleverer, cleverest
Published in Nature immunology (01-06-2002)“…Some strains of mice fail to mount an efficient NK cell response to MCMV infection. With the use of deletion mutants, the in vivo basis for MCMV resistance to…”
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NK‐ and T‐cell subsets in malignant mesothelioma patients: Baseline pattern and changes in the context of anti‐CTLA‐4 therapy
Published in International journal of cancer (15-10-2019)“…Malignant mesothelioma (MM) is a highly aggressive form of cancer with limited treatment options. Although the role of NK cells has been studied in many solid…”
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Infiltration of NK and plasma cells is associated with a distinct immune subset in non‐small cell lung cancer
Published in The Journal of pathology (01-11-2021)“…Immune cells of the tumor microenvironment are central but erratic targets for immunotherapy. The aim of this study was to characterize novel patterns of…”
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MHC Class I–Dependent Shaping of the NK Cell Ly49 Receptor Repertoire Takes Place Early during Maturation in the Bone Marrow
Published in The Journal of immunology (1950) (15-08-2022)“…MHC class I (MHC I) expression in the host influences NK cells in a process termed education. The result of this education is reflected in the responsiveness…”
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NK cells control breast cancer and related cancer stem cell hematological spread
Published in Oncoimmunology (01-01-2017)“…The growth and recurrence of a number of cancers is driven by a scarce population of cancer stem cells (CSCs), which are resistant to most current therapies…”
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Recognition of β2-Microglobulin-Negative (β2m-) T-Cell Blasts by Natural Killer Cells from Normal but not from β2m-Mice: Nonresponsiveness Controlled by β2m-Bone Marrow in Chimeric Mice
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (15-11-1991)“…The role of major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I expression in control of the sensitivity of normal cells to natural killer (NK) cells was studied by…”
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The footprint of a killer
Published in Nature (London) (01-06-2000)“…Natural killer (NK) cells can distinguish normal, healthy cells from aberrant cells in the body. NK cells sometimes carry variants of killer-cell…”
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