Structural basis of LAIR1 targeting by polymorphic Plasmodium RIFINs
oleh: Kai Xu, Yiran Wang, Chen-Hsiang Shen, Yiwei Chen, Baoshan Zhang, Kevin Liu, Yaroslav Tsybovsky, Shuishu Wang, S. Katie Farney, Jason Gorman, Tyler Stephens, Raffaello Verardi, Yongping Yang, Tongqing Zhou, Gwo-Yu Chuang, Antonio Lanzavecchia, Luca Piccoli, Peter D. Kwong
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| Diterbitkan: | Nature Portfolio 2021-07-01 |
Deskripsi
RIFINs are Plasmodium surface antigens that suppress the immune response by binding inhibitory receptors such as LAIR1. Here, Xu et al. characterize the interaction between RIFIN-variable 2 domain and a LAIR1 domain and identify LAIR1-binding RIFINs in several Plasmodium species.