ArticleOncoimmunology2021
DGKζ exerts greater control than DGKα over CD8
Article in Oncoimmunology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.
- Identification of atherosclerosis biomarkers through metabolic signatures and immune microenvironment analysis.Journal of cardiothoracic surgery · 2026Article
- Modulators of Diacylglycerol Kinase Activity: A Review of Advances and Challenges.Medicinal research reviews · 2026Review
- Discovery of BMS-986408, a First-In-Class Dual DGKα and DGKζ Inhibitor that Unleashes PD-1 Checkpoint and CAR T-cell Immunotherapies.Cancer immunology research · 2025Article
- Macrophage DGKActa pharmaceutica Sinica. B · 2025Article
- CRISPR-Cas9 knockout of DGKα/ζ improves the anti-tumor activities of TAG-72 CAR-T cells in ovarian cancer.Molecular therapy. Oncology · 2025Article
- Review
- Discovery of Potent, Dual-Inhibitors of Diacylglycerol Kinases Alpha and Zeta Guided by Phenotypic Optimization.ACS medicinal chemistry letters · 2023Article
- Small molecule inhibitors for cancer immunotherapy and associated biomarkers - the current status.Frontiers in immunology · 2023Review
- Overarching roles of diacylglycerol signaling in cancer development and antitumor immunity.Science signaling · 2022Review
- Delivering Glioblastoma a Kick-DGKα Inhibition as a Promising Therapeutic Strategy for GBM.Cancers · 2022Review
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12 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
Two isoforms of diacylglycerol kinases (DGKs), DGKα and DGKζ, are primarily responsible for terminating DAG-mediated activation of Ras and PKCθ pathways in T cells. A direct comparison of tumor growth between mice lacking each isoform has not been undertaken. We evaluated the growth of three syngeneic tumor cell lines in mice lacking either DGKα or DGKζ in the presence or absence of treatment with anti-PD1 and determined that (i) mice deficient in DGKζ conferred enhanced control of tumor relative to mice deficient in DGKα and (ii) deficiency of DGKζ acted additively with anti-PD1 in tumor control. Consistent with this finding, functional and RNA-sequencing analyses revealed greater changes in stimulated DGKζ-deficient T cells compared with DGKα-deficient T cells, which were enhanced relative to wildtype T cells. DGKζ also imparted greater regulation than DGKα in human T cells. Together, these data support targeting the ζ isoform of DGKs to therapeutically enhance T cell anti-tumor activity.
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