Here we discuss CD160 an essential NK cell activating receptor that remains poorly
understood. CD160 receptor exhibits a number of unique structural and functional
characteristics that are not common to other killer immunoglobulin-like receptors that
recognize major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I molecules:(1) In addition to
humans and mice, the cd160 gene is conserved in several other mammal species;(2) cd160
is located outside the NK gene complex and the Leukocyte Receptor Complex in …