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Nature Immunology 9, 122 - 124 (2008)
doi:10.1038/ni0208-122

CD160 and BTLA: LIGHTs out for CD4+ T cells

Jonathan Kaye1

  1. Jonathan Kaye is in the Department of Immunology, IMM-4, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, USA. e-mail: jkaye@scripps.edu


The T cell costimulatory protein LIGHT and coinhbitory protein BTLA share a common ligand, HVEM. Now CD160 is also shown to bind HVEM and deliver a potent inhibitory signal to CD4 T cells.

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