Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

Impaired lipid biosynthesis hinders anti-tumor efficacy of intratumoral iNKT cells

  • Sicheng Fu,
  • Kaixin He,
  • Chenxi Tian,
  • Hua Sun,
  • Chenwen Zhu,
  • Shiyu Bai,
  • Jiwei Liu,
  • Qielan Wu,
  • Di Xie,
  • Ting Yue,
  • Zhuxia Shen,
  • Qingqing Dai,
  • Xiaojun Yu,
  • Shu Zhu,
  • Gang Liu,
  • Rongbin Zhou,
  • Shengzhong Duan,
  • Zhigang Tian,
  • Tao Xu,
  • Hua Wang,
  • Li Bai

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14332-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Lipid metabolism has been linked to iNKT function largely as it impacts processing and presentation of lipids they recognize. Here the authors show that iNKT-intrinsic lipid biosynthesis is important for their function but is impaired in tumors, and its restoration with PPARγ agonist drugs promotes anti-tumor iNKT response.