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PKC-θ: hitting the bull's eye

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How the kinase PKC-θ is targeted to the immunological synapse and is activated once there remains unclear. A targeting motif in PKC-θ and the previously unsuspected kinase GLK identified in two separate papers now explains this.

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Figure 1: Putative interconnections between selected TCR signaling pathways and CD28 costimulation.

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