PDCD1LG2 and cancer: However, in the context of cancer, when PD-L1/PD-L2 interact with PD-1 on cytotoxic T-cells, it leads to SHP1/2 recruitment to the TCR and modulates numerous phosphorylation activities, resulting in defective cytolytic T-cell function and metabolism [169,171,195,204,206,207,208,209,210,211,212,213,214,215].