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NCR3

Natural cytotoxicity triggering receptor 3 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the NCR3 gene.[1][2][3] NCR3 has also been designated as CD337 (cluster of differentiation 337) and as NKp30.


References

  1. Nalabolu SR, Shukla H, Nallur G, Parimoo S, Weissman SM (Mar 1997). “Genes in a 220-kb region spanning the TNF cluster in human MHC”. Genomics. 31 (2): 215–22. doi:10.1006/geno.1996.0034. PMID 8824804.
  2. Sato M, Ohashi J, Tsuchiya N, Tadokoro K, Juji T, Hanaoka K, Tokunaga K, Yabe T (Jan 2002). “Identification of novel single nucleotide substitutions in the NKp30 gene expressed in human natural killer cells”. Tissue Antigens. 58 (4): 255–8. doi:10.1034/j.1399-0039.2001.580406.x. PMID 11782277.
  3. “Entrez Gene: NCR3 natural cytotoxicity triggering receptor 3”.

Further reading

This article incorporates text from the United States National Library of Medicine, which is in the public domain.


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