ESCRTed resistance to T cell attack.

Trends Immunol

Centre for Cancer Cell Reprogramming, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Montebello, N-0379 Oslo, Norway; Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Institute for Cancer Research, Oslo University Hospital, Montebello, N-0379 Oslo, Norway; Centre of Molecular Inflammation Research, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Medicine, N-7491 Trondheim, Norway. Electronic address:

Published: August 2022

Cytotoxic T cells kill target cells such as cancer cells by making pores in their plasma membrane through which toxic enzymes are secreted. Ritter and colleagues now show that cancer cells can actively remove such pores via the action of endosomal sorting complex required for transport (ESCRT) proteins, thereby counteracting CD8 T cell-mediated killing.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.it.2022.06.007DOI Listing

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