Receptor on natural killer (NK) cells for HLA-C alleles. Does not inhibit the activity of NK cells.
[1]"KIR2DS4 is a product of gene conversion with KIR3DL2 that introduced specificity for HLA-A*11 while diminishing avidity for HLA-C."Graef T., Moesta A.K., Norman P.J., Abi-Rached L., Vago L., Older Aguilar A.M., Gleimer M., Hammond J.A., Guethlein L.A., Bushnell D.A., Robinson P.J., Parham P.J. Exp. Med. 206:2557-2572(2009). [2]"The status, quality, and expansion of the NIH full-length cDNA project: the Mammalian Gene Collection (MGC)." The MGC Project Team Genome Res. 14:2121-2127(2004). [3]"Activation of a subset of human NK cells upon contact with Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes." Artavanis-Tsakonas K., Eleme K., McQueen K.L., Cheng N.W., Parham P., Davis D.M., Riley E.M.J. Immunol. 171:5396-5405(2003).