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Class (I) will come to order – not

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Structures of several structurally and functionally divergent MHC class I homologs and receptor complexes have recently been determined. They reveal the unusual versatility of the underlying MHC class I fold.

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Figure 1: The structure of a classical MHC class I protein.
Figure 2: Footprints of protein ligands on several MHC class I molecules.
Figure 3: Superpositions of the platform domains of HLA-A2 (red), MIC-A (blue) and H-2T22b (purple) in the same orientation as in Fig. 1c.
Figure 4: Space-filling representations of the structures of MIC-A (top) and H-2T22b (bottom).

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