Immunology: Keeping mother at bay

被引:30
作者
Parham, P
机构
[1] Department of Structural Biology, Stanford University, Stanford
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10.1016/S0960-9822(09)00436-9
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Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
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071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
Like its better-known polymorphic relatives, HLA-G, a relatively unpolymorphic class I MHC molecule expressed by foetal trophoblast cells, binds short peptides with a defined sequence motif; HLA-G may play an important role in maternal tolerance to a foetus.
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