KLRK1 and cancer: Overexpression of microRNA, including miR-17-5p, miR-20a, miR-93, miR-106b, miR-372, miR-373 and miR-520c, resulted in downregulation of MICB expression on the surface of cancer cells and less susceptibility to NKG2D-dependent killing by NK cells (Stern-Ginossar et al. 2008).