ReviewAdvances in experimental medicine and biology2021
Lipid Metabolism in Tumor-Associated Natural Killer Cells.
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- The role of lipid metabolic reprogramming in tumor microenvironment.Theranostics · 2023Pooled it
- Lipid metabolism reprogramming shapes the immune landscape in the tumor microenvironment.Cellular & molecular immunology · 2026Review
- Recent advances in understanding the relationship between lipid metabolism and immune escape in the tumor microenvironment of gastric cancer.Medical review (2021) · 2025Review
- Obesity, white adipose tissue and cancer.The FEBS journal · 2025Review
- Tumor Metabolic Reprogramming and Ferroptosis: The Impact of Glucose, Protein, and Lipid Metabolism.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024Review
- Metabolic reprogramming and immune evasion: the interplay in the tumor microenvironment.Biomarker research · 2024Review
- Analyzing the impact of metabolism on immune cells in tumor microenvironment to promote the development of immunotherapy.Frontiers in immunology · 2023Review
- Lipid metabolism and tumor immunotherapy.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2023Review
- Lipid metabolism-related gene signature predicts prognosis and depicts tumor microenvironment immune landscape in gliomas.Frontiers in immunology · 2023Article
- Unique metabolism and protein expression signature in human decidual NK cells.Frontiers in immunology · 2023Article
- Lipid metabolism in tumor immunology and immunotherapy.Frontiers in oncology · 2023Review
- The role of lipid metabolism in tumor immune microenvironment and potential therapeutic strategies.Frontiers in oncology · 2022Review
- A Novel Risk Model Based on Lipid Metabolism-Associated Genes Predicts Prognosis and Indicates Immune Microenvironment in Breast Cancer.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Accumulative data demonstrate that during the initiation and progression of tumors, several types of cellular components in tumor microenvironment, including tumor cells and immune cells, exhibit malfunctions in cellular energy metabolism. For instance, lipid metabolism impairments in immune cells are crucial in coordinating immunosuppression and tumor immune escape. In particular, excessive lipids have been shown to exhibit negative effects on innate immunity. Previous studies on lipid metabolism in immune cells are mainly focused on macrophages and T lymphocytes. Although natural killer (NK) cells are major players in the innate elimination of virus, bacteria, and tumor cells, available literature reports related with lipid metabolism in NK cells and tumor-associated NK (TANK) cells are very sparse. Despite these, the importance and clinical relevance of the crosstalk among lipid metabolism, NK/TANK cells, and tumors have been clearly indicated. In this chapter, following a general description of NK and TANK cells, our knowledge on the regulation of lipid metabolism in NK cells is reviewed, with an emphasis on the roles of mTOR and SREBP signaling. Then the interactions between lipid metabolism and NK/TANK cells under pathological conditions, e.g., obesity and cancer, were carefully introduced. As there is an urgent need to reveal more regulators and to clarify detailed molecular mechanisms by which lipid metabolism interacts with NK/TANK cells, several categories of potential regulators/pathways, as well as the challenges and perspectives in this emerging field, are discussed.
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