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ReviewMetabolites2025

Metabolism of Tryptophan, Glutamine, and Asparagine in Cancer Immunotherapy-Synergism or Mechanism of Resistance?

Kajetan Kiełbowski, Estera Bakinowska, Rafał Becht, Andrzej Pawlik

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Review in Metabolites, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Kajetan KiełbowskiDepartment of Physiology, Pomeranian Medical University, 70-111 Szczecin, Poland.ORCID 0000-0001-8227-6753
Estera BakinowskaDepartment of Physiology, Pomeranian Medical University, 70-111 Szczecin, Poland.
Rafał BechtDepartment of Clinical Oncology, Chemotherapy and Cancer Immunotherapy, Pomeranian Medical University, 71-252 Szczecin, Poland.
Andrzej PawlikDepartment of Physiology, Pomeranian Medical University, 70-111 Szczecin, Poland.ORCID 0000-0001-6557-1208

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Amino acids are crucial components of proteins, key molecules in cellular physiology and homeostasis. However, they are also involved in a variety of other mechanisms, such as energy homeostasis, nitrogen exchange, further synthesis of bioactive compounds, production of nucleotides, or activation of signaling pathways. Moreover, amino acids and their metabolites have immunoregulatory properties, significantly affecting the behavior of immune cells. Immunotherapy is one of the oncological treatment methods that improves cytotoxic properties of one's own immune system. Thus, enzymes catalyzing amino acid metabolism, together with metabolites themselves, can affect immune antitumor properties and responses to immunotherapy. In this review, we will discuss the involvement of tryptophan, glutamine, and asparagine metabolism in the behavior of immune cells targeted by immunotherapy and summarize results of the most recent investigations on the impact of amino acid metabolites on immunotherapy.

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amino acid metabolismasparaginecancerglutamineimmunotherapytryptophan

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PMID40137109
PMCPMC11944271

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