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New insights in chemokine signaling

Legler, Daniel F. ; Thelen, Marcus

In: F1000Research, 2018, vol. 7, p. 95

Chemokine signaling is essential for coordinated cell migration in health and disease to specifically govern cell positioning in space and time. Typically, chemokines signal through heptahelical, G protein-coupled receptors to orchestrate cell migration. Notably, chemokine receptors are highly dynamic structures and signaling efficiency largely depends on the discrete contact with the ligand....

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Shp-2 is critical for ERK and metabolic engagement downstream of IL-15 receptor in NK cells

Niogret, Charlène ; Miah, S. M. Shahjahan ; Rota, Giorgia ; Fonta, Nicolas P. ; Wang, Haiping ; Held, Werner ; Birchmeier, Walter ; Sexl, Veronica ; Yang, Wentian ; Vivier, Eric ; Ho, Ping-Chih ; Brossay, Laurent ; Guarda, Greta

In: Nature communications, 2019, vol. 10, p. 1444

The phosphatase Shp-2 was implicated in NK cell development and functions due to its interaction with NK inhibitory receptors, but its exact role in NK cells is still unclear. Here we show, using mice conditionally deficient for Shp-2 in the NK lineage, that NK cell development and responsiveness are largely unaffected. Instead, we find that Shp-2 serves mainly to enforce NK cell responses to...