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Disruption of this balance is characteristic of autoimmune diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Aside from activating the classical complement pathway and enhancing pathogens and apoptotic cells phagocytosis, C1q has been recently shown to play an important role in immune modulation and tolerance by interacting with several inhibitory and stimulatory immune receptors. Due to its functional organization into collagen-like (CLR) and globular (GR) regions and its multimeric nature, C1q is able to interact simultaneously with several of these receptors and locally congregate pro- and anti-inflammatory signals, thus modulating the immune response. Leukocyte associated immunoglobulin-like (Ig-like) receptor 1 (LAIR-1), a ubiquitous collagen receptor expressed in many immune cell types, has been reported to interact with the CLR of C1q. In this study, we provide new insights into the molecular and structural determinants underlying C1q\/LAIR-1 interaction. Recombinant LAIR-1 extracellular Ig-like domain was produced and tested for its interaction with C1q. A molecular dissection of C1q combined with competition assays reveals that LAIR-1 interacts with C1q\u2019s CLR through a binding site close but different from the one of its associated C1r2s2 proteases tetramer. On the other side, we identified LAIR-1 residues involved in C1q interaction by site-directed mutational analysis. 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