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PLOS ONE
Volume 6, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0024927
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- Medical Research Council (UK)
- Biotechnology and Biological Research Council
- Wolfram Royal Society
- Human Frontiers Science Program Young Investigator Grant
- Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research
- Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
- Israel Science Foundation [759/01-1, 546, 270/09]
- Israel Cancer Research Fund
- Human Frontiers Science Program
- Teva Pharmaceuticals
- Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia
- MRC [G0500563, G1001044] Funding Source: UKRI
- Medical Research Council [G1001044, G0500563] Funding Source: researchfish
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In this study we have addressed the question of how activation and inhibition of human NK cells is regulated by the expression level of MHC class I protein on target cells. Using target cell transfectants sorted to stably express different levels of the MHC class I protein HLA-Cw6, we show that induction of degranulation and that of IFN-gamma secretion are not correlated. In contrast, the inhibition of these two processes by MHC class-I occurs at the same level of class I MHC protein. Primary human NK cell clones were found to differ in the amount of target MHC class I protein required for their inhibition, rather than in their maximum killing capacity. Importantly, we show that KIR2DL1 expression determines the thresholds (in terms of MHC I protein levels) required for NK cell inhibition, while the expression of other receptors such as LIR1 is less important. Furthermore, using mathematical models to explore the dynamics of target cell killing, we found that the observed delay in target cell killing is exhibited by a model in which NK cells require some activation or priming, such that each cell can lyse a target cell only after being activated by a first encounter with the same or a different target cell, but not by models which lack this feature.
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