CD8A and malaria: Therefore, for the purpose of addressing this key question, we have generated B6 Tg mice that express Kd molecule only on hepatocyte (Alb-Kd; Huang et al., 2013) in addition to those that express Kd molecules in all nucleated cells (MHC-I-Kd; Huang et al., 2013) and performed a set of adoptive transfer experiments, in which malaria-specific CD8+ T cell-line was transferred to Alb-Kd Tg mice, MHC-I-Kd Tg mice (as a positive control), and B6 mice (as a negative control).