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ReviewImmunological reviews2023

Decoding the crosstalk between mevalonate metabolism and T cell function.

Kelly T Kennewick, Steven J Bensinger

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Review in Immunological reviews, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
10citing papers in PubMed
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Review
  3. Lipid metabolism in homeostasis and disease.Signal transduction and targeted therapy · 2026
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  10. Farnesyltransferase-inhibitors exertFrontiers in transplantation · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kelly T KennewickDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
Steven J BensingerDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9657-4206
University of California, Los Angeles · US

Funding

Understanding the Influence of Lipid Homeostasis on T cell FunctionP01HL146358 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI YOUNG, STEPHEN G. · 2019 to 2023
$11.7M
Investigating the impact of a fatty acid-cRel inflammatory circuit in atherosclerosisR01HL157710 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI BENSINGER, STEVEN J · 2021 to 2024
$2.3M
Howard Hughes Medical Institute GT14887NHLBI NIH HHS P01 HL146358NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL157710
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The mevalonate pathway is an essential metabolic pathway in T cells regulating development, proliferation, survival, differentiation, and effector functions. The mevalonate pathway is a complex, branched pathway composed of many enzymes that ultimately generate cholesterol and nonsterol isoprenoids. T cells must tightly control metabolic flux through the branches of the mevalonate pathway to ensure sufficient isoprenoids and cholesterol are available to meet cellular demands. Unbalanced metabolite flux through the sterol or the nonsterol isoprenoid branch is metabolically inefficient and can have deleterious consequences for T cell fate and function. Accordingly, there is tight regulatory control over metabolic flux through the branches of this essential lipid synthetic pathway. In this review we provide an overview of how the branches of the mevalonate pathway are regulated in T cells and discuss our current understanding of the relationship between mevalonate metabolism, cholesterol homeostasis and T cell function.

Indexed as

Mevalonic AcidT-LymphocytesCholesterolHumansMetabolic Networks and PathwaysTerpenesCholesterolMevalonic AcidTerpenescholesterolisoprenoidsmevalonate pathwaystatinsT cells

Identifiers

PMID36999733
PMCPMC12136499
OpenAlexW4362458578

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Registered trials

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