Allosteric transition between two disulfide configurations of NK cell receptor KIR2DL4 is a functional switch that controls receptor residence at the cell surface for binding and internalization of soluble HLA-G.
Helen Wang, Vinothkumar Rajan ... Juan Carlos Zúñiga-Pflücker
Two thymic macrophage subsets differ in developmental origin and specialize in apoptotic-cell clearance or immune signaling, linking the thymic myeloid niche to progression through the early β-selection-associated checkpoint.
CD1c-autoreactive T-cells couple infection-associated lipid recognition with cytotoxic and antimicrobial activity, revealing a previously underappreciated arm of human immunity to tuberculosis.