Nature Communications (Apr 2016)

Repression of GSK3 restores NK cell cytotoxicity in AML patients

  • Reshmi Parameswaran,
  • Parameswaran Ramakrishnan,
  • Stephen A. Moreton,
  • Zhiqiang Xia,
  • Yongchun Hou,
  • Dean A. Lee,
  • Kalpana Gupta,
  • Marcos deLima,
  • Rose C. Beck,
  • David N. Wald

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11154
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Natural killer cells of acute myeloid leukaemia patients lack cytotoxic activity. Here the authors show that these cells have elevated GSK3β, and that its inhibition prolongs survival of mice transplanted with human AML and stimulates NK cytotoxicity via increased adhesion of NK cells to their targets.