Kronenberg Mitchell, Ascui Gabriel
La Jolla Institute for Immunology , La Jolla, CA, USA.
Department of Molecular Biology, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
J Exp Med. 2025 Feb 3;222(2). doi: 10.1084/jem.20242099. Epub 2024 Dec 23.
In this issue of JEM, Hosono et al. (https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.20240728) characterize a putative self- glycolipid that engages the iNKT cell TCR when bound to CD1d. The expression and distribution of this compound helps to explain some of the unusual properties of invariant NKT cells.