“…Its extracellular domain encodes a membrane-associated dipeptidyl peptidase IV (DPPIV) activity, able to cleave amino-terminal dipeptides from polypeptides with either L-proline or L-alanine at the penultimate position, including chemokines involved in leukocyte function (Oravecz et al, 1997;Proost et al, 1998). CD26 is also involved in T-cell activation, owing to its association with CD45, mannose 6-phosphate/insulin-like growth factor II receptor and adenosine deaminase (ADA) (Morimoto et al, 1989;Dang et al, 1990aDang et al, -d, 1991Torimoto et al, 1991;Kameoka et al, 1993;Morrison et al, 1993;Ikushima et al, 2000). Additionally, its DPPIV enzyme activity has a key role in various aspects of T-cell activation, as demonstrated by studies using DPPIV inhibitors, soluble CD26/DPPIV molecules or CD26 genetic mutants (Flentke et al, 1991;Tanaka et al, 1993Tanaka et al, , 1994Steinbrecher et al, 2001).…”