Lipid metabolism and cancer immunotherapy: immunosuppressive myeloid cells at the crossroad

A Bleve, B Durante, A Sica, FM Consonni - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Cancer progression generates a chronic inflammatory state that dramatically influences
hematopoiesis, originating different subsets of immune cells that can exert pro-or anti-tumor …

Oxysterols: old tale, new twists

W Luu, LJ Sharpe, I Capell-Hattam… - Annual review of …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
Oxysterols have long been known for their important role in cholesterol homeostasis, where
they are involved in both transcriptional and posttranscriptional mechanisms for controlling …

Cholesterol biosynthesis pathway as a novel mechanism of resistance to estrogen deprivation in estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer

N Simigdala, Q Gao, S Pancholi… - Breast Cancer …, 2016 - Springer
Background Therapies targeting estrogenic stimulation in estrogen receptor-positive (ER+)
breast cancer (BC) reduce mortality, but resistance remains a major clinical problem …

[HTML][HTML] Dysregulated bile acid synthesis and dysbiosis are implicated in Western diet–induced systemic inflammation, microglial activation, and reduced …

PK Jena, L Sheng, J Di Lucente, LW Jin… - The FASEB …, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The goal of this study was to identify the intrinsic links that explain the effect of a Western diet
(WD) on cognitive dysfunction. Specific pathogen-free, wild-type mice were fed either a …

Food fight: role of itaconate and other metabolites in antimicrobial defense

HH Luan, R Medzhitov - Cell metabolism, 2016 - cell.com
Itaconate is a newly discovered mammalian metabolite bearing significant implications for
our understanding of cellular immunometabolism and antimicrobial defense. Here, we …

Effects of interferons and viruses on metabolism

SD Fritsch, T Weichhart - Frontiers in immunology, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Interferons (IFNs) are potent pleiotropic cytokines that broadly alter cellular functions in
response to viral and other infections. These alterations include changes in protein …

Lipid droplets, the central hub integrating cell metabolism and the immune system

W Zhang, L Xu, L Zhu, Y Liu, S Yang… - Frontiers in Physiology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Lipid droplets (LDs) are commonly found in various biological cells and are organelles
related to cell metabolism. LDs, the number and size of which are heterogeneous across cell …

Effects of oxysterols on immune cells and related diseases

FA de Freitas, D Levy, CO Reichert, E Cunha-Neto… - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Oxysterols are the products of cholesterol oxidation. They have a wide range of effects on
several cells, organs, and systems in the body. Oxysterols also have an influence on the …

Rapid GPR183-mediated recruitment of eosinophils to the lung after Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection

AC Bohrer, E Castro, CE Tocheny, M Assmann… - Cell reports, 2022 - cell.com
Influx of eosinophils into the lungs is typically associated with type II responses during
allergy and fungal and parasitic infections. However, we previously reported that eosinophils …

[HTML][HTML] Cholesterol 25-hydroxylase promotes efferocytosis and resolution of lung inflammation

JH Madenspacher, ED Morrell, KM Gowdy… - JCI insight, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Alveolar macrophages (AM) play a central role in initiation and resolution of lung
inflammation, but the integration of these opposing core functions is poorly understood. AM …