Nature Communications (Aug 2017)

Activated protein C protects from GvHD via PAR2/PAR3 signalling in regulatory T-cells

  • Satish Ranjan,
  • Alexander Goihl,
  • Shrey Kohli,
  • Ihsan Gadi,
  • Mandy Pierau,
  • Khurrum Shahzad,
  • Dheerendra Gupta,
  • Fabian Bock,
  • Hongjie Wang,
  • Haroon Shaikh,
  • Thilo Kähne,
  • Dirk Reinhold,
  • Ute Bank,
  • Ana C. Zenclussen,
  • Jana Niemz,
  • Tina M. Schnöder,
  • Monika Brunner-Weinzierl,
  • Thomas Fischer,
  • Thomas Kalinski,
  • Burkhart Schraven,
  • Thomas Luft,
  • Jochen Huehn,
  • Michael Naumann,
  • Florian H. Heidel,
  • Berend Isermann

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00169-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Graft-vs.-host disease is a complication of allogenic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, and is associated with endothelial dysfunction. Here the authors show that activated protein C signals via PAR2/PAR3 to expand Treg cells, mitigating the disease in mice.