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However, the role of T-cell receptor (TCR) signalling in the survival of T\/Natural Killer (NK) lymphomas is not clear. ZAP-70 (zeta associated protein-70) is a cytoplasmic tyrosine kinase with a critical role in T-cell receptor (TCR) signalling. It has also been shown to play a role in normal NK cell signalling and activation. High ZAP-70 expression has been detected by immunohistochemistry in peripheral T cell lymphoma (PTCL) and NK cell lymphomas (NKTCL). We therefore, studied the role of TCR pathways in mediating the proliferation and survival of these malignancies through ZAP-70 signalling. ZAP-70 protein was highly expressed in T cell lymphoma cell lines (JURKAT and KARPAS-299) and NKTCL cell lines (KHYG-1, HANK-1, NK-YS, SNK-1 and SNK-6), but not in multiple B-cell lymphoma cell lines. siRNA depletion of ZAP-70 suppressed the phosphorylation of ZAP-70 substrates, SLP76, LAT and p38MAPK, but did not affect cell viability or induce apoptosis in these cell lines. Similarly, while stable overexpression of ZAP-70 mediates increased phosphorylation of target substrates in the TCR pathway, it does not promote increased survival or growth of NKTCL cell lines. The epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) inhibitor Gefitinib, which has off-target activity against ZAP-70, also did not show any differential cell kill between ZAP-70 overexpressing (OE) or knockdown (KD) cell lines. Whole transcriptome RNA sequencing highlighted that there was very minimal differential gene expression in three different T\/NK cell lines induced by ZAP-70 KD. Importantly, ZAP-70 KD did not significantly enrich for any downstream TCR related genes and pathways. Altogether, this suggests that high expression and constitutive signalling of ZAP-70 in T\/NK lymphoma is not critical for cell survival or downstream TCR-mediated signalling and gene expression. 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