natural killer cell differentiation

I. Involved cell-cell interactions

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Interactors
Protein name
Directionality
Classification
1IL15-IL15RA+IL2RBIL15_HUMAN - Ligand-ReceptorSignaling by Interleukin

II. Literature review

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Namenatural killer cell differentiation
IDGO_0001779
collection_id

Biological process

Exact synonym

NK cell differentiation

Description

The process in which a relatively unspecialized cell acquires the specialized features of a natural killer cell.

Related synonym

natural killer cell development

Comment

Note that immunologists typically use the word 'development' to refer to cells of B or T cell lineages undergoing the process that GO describes as 'cell differentiation'.

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