Environmental and metabolic sensors that control T cell biology

Frontiers in Immunology

Volumn 6, Issue MAR, 2015, Pages

  Ramsay, George ^a   Cantrell, Doreen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amino acid uptake; Aryl hydrocarbon; Glucose uptake; Hypoxia; Leucine and mTOR; Microbiome; T cell metabolism

Indexed keywords

2 HYDROXYGLUTARIC ACID; AROMATIC HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR; CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR7; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER; GLUTAMINE; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE KINASE; HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1; INTERLEUKIN 2; ISOCITRATE DEHYDROGENASE 1; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN COMPLEX 1; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; STEROL REGULATORY ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR;

AMINO ACID TRANSPORT; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CITRIC ACID CYCLE; CYTOLOGY; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; HUMAN; HYDROXYLATION; HYPOXIA; LYMPHOCYTE MIGRATION; MICROBIOME; OXIDATIVE PHOSPHORYLATION; OXYGEN TENSION; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT;

EID: 84926670025     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16643224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2015.00099     Document Type: Review

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