Nature Communications (Oct 2018)

Complement receptor CD46 co-stimulates optimal human CD8+ T cell effector function via fatty acid metabolism

  • Giuseppina Arbore,
  • Erin E. West,
  • Jubayer Rahman,
  • Gaelle Le Friec,
  • Nathalie Niyonzima,
  • Mehdi Pirooznia,
  • Ilker Tunc,
  • Polychronis Pavlidis,
  • Nicholas Powell,
  • Yuesheng Li,
  • Poching Liu,
  • Aude Servais,
  • Lionel Couzi,
  • Veronique Fremeaux-Bacchi,
  • Leo Placais,
  • Alastair Ferraro,
  • Patrick R. Walsh,
  • David Kavanagh,
  • Behdad Afzali,
  • Paul Lavender,
  • Helen J. Lachmann,
  • Claudia Kemper

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06706-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Complement, while serving to remove pathogens in the circulation, is also important for synergizing with inflammasomes to modulate CD4 T cell activation. Here the authors show that CD46, a complement receptor expressed only in humans, is essential for inducing optimal activation and effector functions of human CD8 T cells.