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Relationship between the levels of MHC class 1 antigen expressed on tumour cells and their susceptibility to allogenic and xenogenic NK cells was investigated. Mouse and human natural killer-resistance inducing factor (NK-RIF) preparations were used for augmenting/inducing MHC 1 antigen expression on murine YAC and human K562 tumour cells, respectively YAC cells with augmented MHC I antigen expression became relatively resistant to lysis by murine NK cells but not to rat NK cells. Similarly, induction of MHC I antigens on K562 cells reduced their susceptibility to human NK cells but not to monkey NK cells. These results indicate that the inverse correlation of MHC I antigen expression and NK susceptibility does not hold true for xenogenic pairs of NK effector and target cells.
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Sarin, A., Saxena, Q.B., Herberman, R.B. et al. Enhanced MHC I antigen expression on tumour target cells is inversely correlated to lysis by allogenic but not by xenogenic NK cells. J. Biosci. 20, 515–523 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02703534
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