The human major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I chain-related gene A (MICA), located 46 kb centromeric to HLA-B,is highly polymorphic. In addition to its primary role in immune surveillance, ...
The MHC class I-related chain A (MICA) molecules exist as membrane-bound and soluble isoforms and are encoded by a polymorphic gene. Their genetic and phenotype characteristics have been studied in va...
Atomic force microscopy (AFM) was used to image circular DNA adsorbed on freshly cleaved mica and mica chemically modified with Mg(II), Co(II), La(III), and Zr(IV). Images obtained on unmodified mica ...
The role of MICA antibodies in acute heart allograft rejection was examined utilizing 190 pre- and post-transplant serum samples from 44 patients collected during the first year after transplantation....
This study investigates the structures of layers of amphiphilic diblock copolymers of poly(t-butyl styrene)-poly(styrene sulfonate) (PtBS-PSS) adsorbed on both the bare mica surface (hydrophilic) and ...
MICA is a nonclassical polymorphic MHC molecule. We investigated MICA allelic frequencies and MICA-HLA-B-HLA-C haplotypes in Brazilian Amerindians to describe the polymorphism and to extract informati...
Identification of a novel MICA allele: MICA*051.
Quiroga I, Sweeney D, Sutton PM, Chapple SD, Souto-Grando JP, Barnardo MC, Fuggle SV.
Nuffield Department of Surgery, University of Oxford, Oxford, U...
The Escherichia coli methylation-independent repair pathway specific for A/G mismatches has been shown to require the gene product of micA. Extracts prepared from micA mutants do not form an A/G misma...