Cd244 (human) recombinant protein 10 µg

Natural killer (NK) cells express both activating and inhibitory cell surface receptors. Inhibitory signaling receptors all possess cytoplasmic immunoreceptor tyrosine-based inhibitory motifs, or ITIMs, whereas the activating receptors lack ITIMs and associate with DAP12 (TYROBP; MIM 604142), which contains an immunoreceptor tyrosine-based activation motif, or ITAM. Killer cell immunoglobulin (Ig)-like receptors, or KIRs (see KIR2DL1; MIM 604936), and other NK cell receptors interact with major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecules (see MIM 142800). Members of the CD2 (MIM 186990) family adhere to each other instead. The cell surface glycoprotein 2B4 is related to CD2 and is implicated in the regulation of NK- and T-cell function (Boles et al., 1999 [PubMed 10458320]).[supplied by OMIM]