In a recent article, Sen Santara et al. demonstrated that the activating natural killer (NK) cell receptor NKp46 binds to externalized calreticulin (ecto-CRT), leading to NK cell degranulation and target cell killing. They show that endoplasmic reticulum stress-induced ecto-CRT serves as a danger-associated molecular pattern, helping NK cells identify and eliminate infected, malignant, stressed or senescent cells.
Keywords: Ecto-calreticulin; NK cell activating receptors; NKP46.
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