LongevityMap variant
- Longevity Association
- Non-significant
- Population
- Irish
- Study Design
- 24 genotypes were examined in 93 aged individuals (80-97 years) and 100 controls (19-45 years)
- Conclusions
- A comparison of the frequency of individual KIR gene repertoires within the aged subset and control group failed to reveal a statistically significant level of genotypic variation
- HGNC symbol
- KIR3DL1
- Aliases
- KIR; NKB1; NKAT3; NKB1B; NKAT-3; CD158E1; KIR3DL1/S1
- Common name
- killer cell immunoglobulin like receptor, three Ig domains and long cytoplasmic tail 1
- Description
- Killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIRs) are transmembrane glycoproteins expressed by natural killer cells and subsets of T cells. The KIR genes are polymorphic and highly homologous and they are found in a cluster on chromosome 19q13.4 within the 1 Mb leukocyte receptor complex (LRC). The gene content of the KIR gene cluster varies among haplotypes, although several "framework" genes are found in all haplotypes (KIR3DL3, KIR3DP1, KIR3DL4, KIR3DL2). The KIR proteins are classified by the number of extracellular immunoglobulin domains (2D or 3D) and by whether they have a long (L) or short (S) cytoplasmic domain. KIR proteins with the long cytoplasmic domain transduce inhibitory signals upon ligand binding via an immune tyrosine-based inhibitory motif (ITIM), while KIR proteins with the short cytoplasmic domain lack the ITIM motif and instead associate with the TYRO protein tyrosine kinase binding protein to transduce activating signals. The ligands for several KIR proteins are subsets of HLA class I molecules; thus, KIR proteins are thought to play an important role in regulation of the immune response. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2008]
- Other longevity studies of this gene
- 1
- OMIM
- 604946
- Ensembl
- ENSG00000167633
- UniProt/Swiss-Prot
- KI3L1_HUMAN
- Entrez Gene
- 3811
- UniGene
- 645228
- HapMap
- View on HapMap
Homologs in model organisms
- Mus musculus
- Kir3dl2
- Mus musculus
- Kir3dl1
- Rattus norvegicus
- Kir3dl1
Maxwell et al. (2004)
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