Nature Communications (Oct 2018)

Structure of MHC class I-like MILL2 reveals heparan-sulfate binding and interdomain flexibility

  • Mizuho Kajikawa,
  • Toyoyuki Ose,
  • Yuko Fukunaga,
  • Yuki Okabe,
  • Naoki Matsumoto,
  • Kento Yonezawa,
  • Nobutaka Shimizu,
  • Simon Kollnberger,
  • Masanori Kasahara,
  • Katsumi Maenaka

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06797-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The MILL (MHC-I-like located near the leukocyte receptor complex) family is a group of related nonclassical MHC-I molecules. Here the authors present the crystal structure of MILL2, which reveals an unusual interdomain flexibility, and show that MILL2 binds heparan sulfate on the surface of fibroblasts through a basic patch.