Nature Communications (Jan 2018)

Activated CD8+ T cell extracellular vesicles prevent tumour progression by targeting of lesional mesenchymal cells

  • Naohiro Seo,
  • Yoshitaka Shirakura,
  • Yoshiro Tahara,
  • Fumiyasu Momose,
  • Naozumi Harada,
  • Hiroaki Ikeda,
  • Kazunari Akiyoshi,
  • Hiroshi Shiku

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-02865-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Immune cells have an important role in tumour progression. Here, the authors show that extracellular vesicles from activated CD8+ T cells attenuate tumour progression by depletion of mesenchymal tumour stromal cells.