HGF Guides T Cells into the Heart

Immunity. 2015 Jun 16;42(6):979-81. doi: 10.1016/j.immuni.2015.06.001.

Abstract

Expression of distinct homing receptors guides adaptive immune cells to antigen-rich tissue. In this issue of Immunity, Komarowska et al. (2015) describe an autocrine loop that is initiated by cardiac-expressed hepatocyte growth factor to direct T cells into the heart during inflammation and cardiac transplant rejection.

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Graft Rejection / prevention & control*
  • Heart / physiology*
  • Heart Transplantation*
  • Hepatocyte Growth Factor / metabolism*
  • Humans
  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-met / metabolism*
  • T-Lymphocytes / physiology*

Substances

  • Hepatocyte Growth Factor
  • Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-met