TYROBP antibody, DAP12 antibody, tyrpbp antibody, Karap antibody, KARAP antibody, PLOSL antibody, Ly83 antibody, dap12 antibody, TYRO protein tyrosine kinase binding protein antibody, Tyro protein tyrosine kinase binding protein antibody, TYROBP antibody, tyrobp antibody, Tyrobp antibody
Background
DAP12 is a natural killer (NK) cell-expressed cell surface receptor and belongs to the immunoglobulin and C-type lectin superfamily. Unlike other members of this family which possess immunoreceptor tyrosine-based inhibitory motifs (ITIM), DAP12 contains an immunoreceptor tyrosine-based activation motif (ITAM) in its cytoplasmic domain and is present as a disulphide-bonded homodimer. Crosslinking of DAP12-KIR complexes (membrane glycoproteins of the killer-cell inhibitory receptor family without an ITIM in their cytoplasmic domain) results in cellular activation.