Nature Communications (Aug 2017)

IL-7Rα glutamylation and activation of transcription factor Sall3 promote group 3 ILC development

  • Benyu Liu,
  • Buqing Ye,
  • Xiaoxiao Zhu,
  • Guanling Huang,
  • Liuliu Yang,
  • Pingping Zhu,
  • Ying Du,
  • Jiayi Wu,
  • Shu Meng,
  • Yong Tian,
  • Zusen Fan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00235-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Innate lymphoid cells (ILC) are important regulators of mucosal immunity, but how their development and homeostasis are modulated is still unclear. Here the authors show that the differentiation of group 3 ILCs is controlled by the glutamylation of IL-7Rα and the induction of transcription factor Sall3.