Nature Communications (Jan 2019)

Remodeling of secretory lysosomes during education tunes functional potential in NK cells

  • Jodie P. Goodridge,
  • Benedikt Jacobs,
  • Michelle L. Saetersmoen,
  • Dennis Clement,
  • Quirin Hammer,
  • Trevor Clancy,
  • Ellen Skarpen,
  • Andreas Brech,
  • Johannes Landskron,
  • Christian Grimm,
  • Aline Pfefferle,
  • Leonardo Meza-Zepeda,
  • Susanne Lorenz,
  • Merete Thune Wiiger,
  • William E. Louch,
  • Eivind Heggernes Ask,
  • Lisa L. Liu,
  • Vincent Yi Sheng Oei,
  • Una Kjällquist,
  • Sten Linnarsson,
  • Sandip Patel,
  • Kjetil Taskén,
  • Harald Stenmark,
  • Karl-Johan Malmberg

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08384-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Natural killer (NK) cells are functionally calibrated against self MHC during a process termed education. Here the authors show that NK cell education is associated with the accumulation of dense-core secretory lysosomes for expedited release of granzyme B and Ca2+ flux upon target recognition and NK cell activation.