Nature Communications (May 2021)

PD-1 suppresses TCR-CD8 cooperativity during T-cell antigen recognition

  • Kaitao Li,
  • Zhou Yuan,
  • Jintian Lyu,
  • Eunseon Ahn,
  • Simon J. Davis,
  • Rafi Ahmed,
  • Cheng Zhu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22965-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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The mechanistic detail of how PD-1 inhibits T cell activation is lacking. Here, the authors show PD-1 suppresses the cooperative TCR–pMHC–CD8 interaction by inhibiting TCR proximal signalling.