Food Fight: Role of Itaconate and Other Metabolites in Antimicrobial Defense.

Luan, Harding H; Medzhitov, Ruslan · Cell Metab · 2016

review · Level V

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Abstract

Itaconate is a newly discovered mammalian metabolite bearing significant implications for our understanding of cellular immunometabolism and antimicrobial defense. Here, we explore recent findings regarding the role of itaconate in the innate immune response and highlight the emerging principle that metabolites can have distinct immunological functions independent of bioenergetics.

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