Inhibition of fatty acid metabolism by etomoxir or TOFA suppresses murine dendritic cell activation without affecting viability.

Conclusions: Both cDCs, the primary antigen presenting cell, and pDCs, the primary type I IFN producer, exhibit a suppressed ability to activate but normal viability when their FA metabolism is inhibited by etomoxir or TOFA. Our findings indicate that FA metabolism plays an important role in the activation of both pDCs and cDCs and suggest that its modulation is an exploitable therapeutic target to suppress DC activation in inflammation or autoimmunity. PMID: 31155984 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Immunopharmacology and Immunotoxicology - Category: Allergy & Immunology Tags: Immunopharmacol Immunotoxicol Source Type: research