Historical Background
CLEC4E is a type 2 transmembrane receptor that is a member of the C-type lectin family of immune receptors and possesses a carbohydrate-recognition domain in its extracellular region. It was originally identified as a downstream transcriptional target of CCAAT/enhancer-binding protein beta in mouse macrophages and termed macrophage-inducible protein – Mincle (Matsumoto et al. 1999). The finding 10 years later that CLEC4E is a key receptor for the mycobacterial cell wall component, trehalose dimycolate, led to a surge in interest in the role of CLEC4E in controlling mycobacterial infection and in its ligands as potential vaccine adjuvants (Ishikawa et al. 2009). Furthermore, data has emerged implicating CLEC4E in the immune response to fungal infections...
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Reschen, M.E., Mistry, A.R., O’Callaghan, C.A. (2018). CLEC4E. In: Choi, S. (eds) Encyclopedia of Signaling Molecules. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67199-4_571
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