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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2025

Regulation of dendritic cell biology by amino acids and their transporters.

Shanlin Chen, Gongwei Li, Zihao Jiang, Yuekang Xu, Adila Aipire, Jinyao Li

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Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Shanlin Chen *Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Biological Resources and Genetic Engineering, College of Life Science & Technology, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, China.
Gongwei Li *Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Biological Resources and Genetic Engineering, College of Life Science & Technology, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, China.
Zihao JiangXinjiang Key Laboratory of Biological Resources and Genetic Engineering, College of Life Science & Technology, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, China.
Yuekang XuXinjiang Key Laboratory of Biological Resources and Genetic Engineering, College of Life Science & Technology, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, China.
Adila AipireXinjiang Key Laboratory of Biological Resources and Genetic Engineering, College of Life Science & Technology, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, China.
Jinyao LiXinjiang Key Laboratory of Biological Resources and Genetic Engineering, College of Life Science & Technology, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dendritic cells (DCs) play a central role in inducing both immunity and tolerance as specialized antigen-presenting cells (APCs). The immunometabolic firestorm in recent years has focused our attention on how DCs use energy and respond to nutritional changes that affect immune functions. Like in every other cell, such metabolic events as the concentration of free amino acids, membrane-bound transporter proteins, key metabolic enzymes, and sensors (e.g., mTOR and GCN2), also profoundly affect the function and fate of DCs. Therefore, dysregulation of amino acid metabolism can cause metabolic reprogramming of DCs, leading to or accelerating the occurrence of various immunological disorders, like type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, and cancer. Since amino acids cannot directly enter the cell to participate in metabolic activities, their transporters act as critical metabolic gatekeepers. To catch up with the rapid development in the immune metabolism field, this review summarized recent studies on the potential roles of different amino acids and their transporters in the regulation of DCs biology to offer new insights for immune-dysregulated diseases and explore new therapeutic targets.

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Amino AcidsAmino Acid Transport SystemsDendritic CellsAnimalsHumansAmino AcidsAmino Acid Transport Systemsamino acidsamino acids transportersdendritic cellsimmune responsemetabolic reprogramming

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PMID40688069
PMCPMC12271228

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