Nature Communications (Aug 2017)

Absence of Grail promotes CD8+ T cell anti-tumour activity

  • Cara Haymaker,
  • Yi Yang,
  • Junmei Wang,
  • Qiang Zou,
  • Anupama Sahoo,
  • Andrei Alekseev,
  • Divyendu Singh,
  • Krit Ritthipichai,
  • Yared Hailemichael,
  • Oanh N. Hoang,
  • Hong Qin,
  • Kimberly S. Schluns,
  • Tiejun Wang,
  • Willem W. Overwijk,
  • Shao-Cong Sun,
  • Chantale Bernatchez,
  • Larry W. Kwak,
  • Sattva S. Neelapu,
  • Roza Nurieva

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00252-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Grail is an E3 ubiquitin ligase that inhibits T-cell receptor signalling in CD4+ T cells. Here the authors show Grail also limits IL-21 receptor expression and function in CD8+ T cells, is overactive in these cells in patients with lymphoma, and promotes tumour development in a lymphoma transplant mouse model.