Selected publications

  • Henden, C, Fjerdingstad, HB, Bjørnsen, EG, Thiruchelvam-Kyle, L, Inngjerdingen, M, Glover, JC and Dissen, E. 2025. NK cell cytotoxicity towards pluripotent stem cells and their neural progeny: impacts of activating and inhibitory receptors and KIR/HLA mismatch. Stem cells 43:sxae083

  • Bjørnsen, E. G., Hoelsbrekken, S. E., Thiruchelvam-Kyle, L., Henden, C., Saether, P. C., Boysen, P., Storset, A. K., Daws, M. R. and Dissen, E.  2019. B7H6 is a functional ligand for NKp30 in rat and cattle and determines NKp30 reactivity towards human cancer cells. Eur. J. Immunol. 49:54-65

  • Thiruchelvam-Kyle, L., Hoelsbrekken, S.E., Saether, P.C., Bjørnsen, E.G., Pende, D., Fossum, S., Daws, M.R. and Dissen, E. 2017. The activating human NK cell receptor KIR2DS2 recognizes a β2-microglobulin independent ligand on cancer cells. J. Immunol. 198: 2556-2567.  

  • Saether, P.C. Hoelsbrekken, S. E., Fossum, S. and Dissen, E. 2011. Rat and mouse CD94 associate directly with the activating transmembrane adaptor proteins DAP12 and DAP10 and activate NK cell cytotoxicity. J. Immunol. 187:6365-6373. 

  • Saether, P. C., Westgaard, I. H., Hoelsbrekken, S. E., Benjamin, J., Lanier, L. L., Fossum, S. and Dissen, E. 2008. KLRE/I1 and KLRE/I2: a novel pair of heterodimeric receptors that inversely regulate NK cell cytotoxicity.                           J. Immunol. 181:3177-3182.
  • Bryceson, Y. T., Inngjerdingen, M., Torgersen, K. M, Berg, S. F., Hoelsbrekken, S. E., Fossum, S. and Dissen, E. 2005. The rat orthologue to the inhibitory receptor gp49B is expressed by neutrophils and monocytes, but not by NK cells or mast cells. Eur. J. Immunol.35: 1230-1239.
  • Storset, A. K., Kulberg, S., Berg, I., Hope, J. and Dissen, E. 2004. NKp46 defines a subset of bovine leukocytes with natural killer cell characteristics. Eur. J. Immunol. 34: 669-676.
  • Storset, A. K., Slettedal, I. Ö, Williams, J. L., Law, A., and Dissen, E. 2003. Natural killer cell receptors in cattle: a bovine killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptor multigene family contains members with divergent signaling motifs. Eur. J. Immunol. 33: 980-990.
  • Hoelsbrekken, S. E., Nylenna, Ø, Saether, P. C., Slettedal, I. Ö., Ryan, J. C., Fossum, S., and Dissen, E. 2003. Cutting Edge: Molecular cloning of a killer cell Ig-like receptor in the mouse and rat. J. Immunol. 170:2259-2263.
  • Westgaard, I. H., Dissen, E., Torgersen, K. M., Lazetic, S., Lanier, L. L., Phillips, J. H., and Fossum, S. 2003. The lectin-like receptor KLRE1 inhibits natural killer cell cytotoxicity. J. Exp. Med.. 197: 1551-1561.
  • Dissen, E., Ryan, J. C., Seaman, W. E., and Fossum, S. 1996. An autosomal dominant locus, Nka, mapping to the Ly-49 region of a rat natural killer (NK) gene complex, controls NK cell lysis of allogeneic lymphocytes.  J. Exp. Med. 183:2197-2207.
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