Human CD96 Correlates to Natural Killer Cell Exhaustion and Predicts the Prognosis of Human Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Haoyu Sun, Qiang Huang, Mei Huang, Hao Wen, Renyong Lin, Meijuan Zheng, Kun Qu, Kun Li, Haiming Wei, Weihua Xiao, Rui Sun, Zhigang Tian, Cheng Sun – 8 November 2018 – Immune checkpoint blockade has become a promising therapeutic approach to reverse immune cell exhaustion. Coinhibitory CD96 and T‐cell immunoglobulin and ITIM domain (TIGIT), together with costimulatory CD226, bind to common ligand CD155. The balancing between three receptors fine‐tunes immune responses against tumors.