Nature Communications (Jun 2018)

Glycolytic metabolism is essential for CCR7 oligomerization and dendritic cell migration

  • Hannah Guak,
  • Sara Al Habyan,
  • Eric H. Ma,
  • Haya Aldossary,
  • Maia Al-Masri,
  • So Yoon Won,
  • Thomas Ying,
  • Elizabeth D. Fixman,
  • Russell G. Jones,
  • Luke M. McCaffrey,
  • Connie. M. Krawczyk

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04804-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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The activation of dendritic cells (DC) is associated with a metabolic switch from oxidative to glycolytic metabolism. Here, the authors show that both strong and weak stimuli cause an immediate increase in glycolysis, but only strong stimuli induce long-term glycolytic reprogramming.