The α₁domain of HLA-G1 and HLA-G2 inhibits cytotoxicity induced by natural killer cells: Is HLA-G the public ligand for natural killer cell inhibitory receptors?

A Class I Antigen, HLA-G, Expressed in Human Trophoblasts

1990 • 1,417 citations

Cloning of Immunoglobulin-Superfamily Members Associated with HLA-C and HLA-B Recognition by Human Natural Killer Cells

1995 • 735 citations

Alternative splicing of HLA-G transcripts yields proteins with primary structures resembling both class I and class II antigens.

1992 • 515 citations

Protection from Natural Killer Cell-Mediated Lysis by HLA-G Expression on Target Cells

1996 • 489 citations

Human placental HLA-G expression is restricted to differentiated cytotrophoblasts.

1995 • 479 citations

HLA-C is the inhibitory ligand that determines dominant resistance to lysis by NK1- and NK2-specific natural killer cells.

1993 • 455 citations

Human trophoblast and the choriocarcinoma cell line BeWo express a truncated HLA Class I molecule.

1990 • 393 citations

Protection from lysis by natural killer cells of group 1 and 2 specificity is mediated by residue 80 in human histocompatibility leukocyte antigen C alleles and also occurs with empty major histocompatibility complex molecules.

1996 • 340 citations

Evidence for a novel HLA antigen found on human extravillous trophoblast and a choriocarcinoma cell line.

1986 • 288 citations

Early human decidual cells exhibit NK activity against the K562 cell line but not against first trimester trophoblast

1989 • 233 citations

An alternatively spliced form of HLA-G mRNA in human trophoblasts and evidence for the presence of HLA-G transcript in adult lymphocytes.

1994 • 230 citations

Human natural killer cell receptors for HLA-class I molecules. Evidence that the Kp43 (CD94) molecule functions as receptor for HLA-B alleles.

1994 • 193 citations

CD94 and a Novel Associated Protein (94AP) Form a NK Cell Receptor Involved in the Recognition of HLA-A, HLA-B, and HLA-C Allotypes

1996 • 187 citations

Resistance of HLA-G and HLA-A2 Transfectants to Lysis by Decidual NK Cells

1994 • 179 citations

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

1992 • 157 citations

HLA-G revisited

1996 • 112 citations

Phenotypic and functional cellular differences between human CD3- decidual and peripheral blood leukocytes.

1994 • 103 citations

Soluble HLA-G molecule

1995 • 94 citations

HLA-G gene polymorphism segregation within CEPH reference families

1997 • 51 citations

NK-cell receptors and recognition of MHC class I molecules

1996 • 51 citations

Detection of Epstein-Barr virus genome in natural-killer-like cell line, YT.

1992 • 51 citations

Evidence for the presence of the alternatively spliced HLA-G mRNA forms in human mononuclear cells from peripheral blood and umbilical cord blood

1995 • 34 citations

HLA-G Gene Transcriptional Regulation in Trophoblasts and Blood Cells

1997 • 29 citations

[Alternative transcripts of the MHC of the non-classical class I HLA-G gene in the in trophoblast during the first pregnancy trimester and in the placenta at term].

1995 • 15 citations

Natural killer cells are the unique lymphocyte cell subset which do not express HLA-G.

1995 • 10 citations