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SUBMITTER: Caumartin J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1817622 | biostudies-literature | 2007 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Caumartin Julien J Favier Benoit B Daouya Marina M Guillard Christine C Moreau Philippe P Carosella Edgardo D ED LeMaoult Joel J
The EMBO journal 20070222 5
Trogocytosis is a fast uptake of membranes and associated molecules from one cell by another. Trogocytosis between natural killer (NK) cells and tumors is already described, but the functional relevance of NK-tumor targets material exchange is unclear. We investigated whether the immunosuppressive molecule HLA-G that is commonly expressed by tumors in vivo and known to block NK cytolytic function, could be transferred from tumor cells to NK cells, and if this transfer had functional consequences ...[more]