Regulation of Immunity and Inflammation by Immunometabolites and Metabolic Enzymes
A special issue of Metabolites (ISSN 2218-1989). This special issue belongs to the section "Cell Metabolism".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2020) | Viewed by 80340
Special Issue Editors
Interests: immunometabolism; inflammation; autoimmunity; T cell biology
Interests: immunometabolism; innate immunity; macrophage heterogeneity and plasticity; immunometabolites
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Interests: innate immunity; macrophages; innate lymphoid cells; immunometabolism
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Immunology and metabolism have long been viewed as two very distinct fields with minimal or no overlap. However, over the past decade, a fast-growing number of high-impact papers highlighted the intricate link between immune cell metabolism and function. The activation and effector functions of adaptive and innate immune cells are indeed governed by the engagement and modulation of specific intracellular metabolic pathways. Systemic metabolic cues and dysfunctions can also influence how immune cells work, supporting the concept that metabolism and inflammation are tightly connected. For example, metabolites are much more than intermediate or end products of metabolism. We now know that “immunometabolites” like succinate, itaconate, acetyl-CoA, and 2-hydroxyglutarate serve as signal transducers that regulate immune cell function and disease outcome. Moreover, metabolic enzymes such as glyceraldehyde-3-phospahte dehydrogenase (GAPDH) and pyruvate kinase (PK) do much more than converting one metabolite into another.
The scope of this Special Issue will be to update our current knowledge on how metabolites and metabolic enzymes can modulate immunity and inflammation. We welcome high-quality original research articles, as well as reviews and perspectives, that provide new mechanistic insight into the metabolic regulation of immune cells (macrophages, dendritic cells, monocytes, granulocytes, T cells, NK cells, B cells, etc.), and how this affects health and disease. Manuscripts describing new methods developed to investigate metabolite-mediated signalling pathways and the non-canonical role of metabolic enzymes in inflammation are also welcome.
Dr. Stefano Angiari
Dr. Jan Van den Bossche
Dr. Stanley Huang
Prof. Luke O'Neill
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- immunometabolism
- immunometabolites
- metabolic reprogramming
- metabolism
- immune cell heterogeneity and plasticity
- signalling
- inflammation
- immunomodulation
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