Nature Communications (May 2019)

Killer-like receptors and GPR56 progressive expression defines cytokine production of human CD4+ memory T cells

  • Kim-Long Truong,
  • Stephan Schlickeiser,
  • Katrin Vogt,
  • David Boës,
  • Katarina Stanko,
  • Christine Appelt,
  • Mathias Streitz,
  • Gerald Grütz,
  • Nadja Stobutzki,
  • Christian Meisel,
  • Christina Iwert,
  • Stefan Tomiuk,
  • Julia K. Polansky,
  • Andreas Pascher,
  • Nina Babel,
  • Ulrik Stervbo,
  • Igor Sauer,
  • Undine Gerlach,
  • Birgit Sawitzki

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10018-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Despite the current human CD4 memory T cell stratification by CD45RA/CCR7, functional heterogeneities still exist within the respective subsets. Here the authors show that several surface markers, including KLRB1, KLRG1, GPR56 and KLRF1, help to further refine the subsetting of human CD4 memory T cells and provide insights for their differentiation.